{"id":2234,"date":"2012-12-04T19:39:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T00:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachuslex.com\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2012-12-05T08:44:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T13:44:34","slug":"bob-costas-idea-of-an-apology-is-yet-another-attack-on-gun-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/?p=2234","title":{"rendered":"Bob Costas’ idea of an ‘apology’ is yet another attack on gun owners"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Bob Costas is in trouble with football fans, a large majority of which are gun owners, and his insulting attempt at an apology is only adding fuel to the fire.<\/p>\n

But let’s start at the beginning. It all started with FoxSports.com columnist Jason Whitlock.<\/p>\n

In the wake of the media frenzy surrounding Jovan Belcher’s murder of his girlfriend and subsequent suicide, Whitlock penned an article<\/a> in which he launched a scathing attack on the Second Amendment and those who value it.<\/p>\n

He starts his rant with an assertion that the Second Amendment is threatening to the very liberty it purports to protect.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019d prefer to avoid seriously reflecting upon the absurdity of the prevailing notion that the second amendment somehow enhances our liberty rather than threatens it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He then moves on to repeat the absurd cliche that the Second Amendment is irrelevant as a bulwark against an oppressive government because they could simply nuke the entire country.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow many young people have to die senselessly? How many lives have to be ruined before we realize the right to bear arms doesn\u2019t protect us from a government equipped with stealth bombers, predator drones, tanks and nuclear weapons?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not satisfied to stop there, he goes on to imply that domestic violence could not possibly end in death if a gun were not involved.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the coming days, Belcher\u2019s actions will be analyzed through the lens of concussions and head injuries. Who knows? Maybe brain damage triggered his violent overreaction to a fight with his girlfriend. What I believe is, if he didn\u2019t possess\/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now … while numerous commentators have noted that a man of Belcher’s size and strength would have little difficulty taking a life without a gun, Whitlock seemed determined to blame the instrument rather than the man who, in a fit of murderous rage, killed the mother of his child.<\/p>\n

But he certainly isn’t alone in holding that strange opinion. Bob Costas dragged a very reluctant NBC into the controversy by expounding on Whitlock’s article during Sunday Night Football.<\/p>\n