Equally? How many threads concerning the inappropriate near-deification of our armed forces during sports events have you participated in? In fact, have there ever been any threads at all on that subject?
Once again you question the answer. If you don’t like the answer, don’t ask the question.
What I am doing is what is called “follow up”. You ask these for the purpose of clarification.
Huh. I also saw him being interviewed where he reiterated that he said nothing about gun control, and in fact, no matter what the laws are, the issue of a culture of guns remains.
As far as why he didn’t advocate banning of drugs and alcohol; maybe it is for the same reason he did not advocate gun control.
I guess it’s like someone saying “maybe we as a country eat too much fatty food” and having someone ?shriek? OMG he’s calling for the immediate ban of pork rinds! GASP!
You lost me at “had went.”
I have no problem with it. In many cases it’s because there is a thread connecting it to the sports world.
Pregame and postgame and halftime chatter is mostly useless bullshit anyway, platitudes and statements of the obvious.
Sure, that was solid. I like Costas. From the accounts here, it sounds like I’d disagree more than agree with the tone of these latest particular remarks, but that doesn’t matter.
Chicken meet mister Egg
OK, I’m not particular about what ‘sides’ you meant. Is there an analogous ‘obvious truth’ on whatever ‘other side’ you were referring to, that would actually be true?
I’ve observed nearly a half-century of American politics, and the political spectrum has been getting steadily more dichotomous over that time. Whether or not the idea is inadequate, it’s exactly the opposite of outdated.
So you and **ExTank ** are saying that having guns, as opposed to not having them, when angry or high or whatever doesn’t increase the risk of violence in those situations, because most gun owners don’t do anything bad with guns ever.
You realize, I hope, that that is not a rebuttal.
Perhaps you have noticed that we’re not even talking about any such potential limitations in this thread.
See, this is the problem with you gunnies. The slippery slope with you guys starts with stating obvious truths about the effects of widespread availability and presence of guns. But because some of those obvious truths might lead to a discussion of whether there should be some limitations on guns, statement of those truths must be attacked right out of the box. It’s very much like the way the power structure in the antebellum South didn’t allow the legitimacy of slavery questioned in the slightest on their turf, and threw fits anytime anyone questioned it in the halls of Congress.
What’s a Defensive Gun Use? I can recall a number of times in my life that I could have used guns to ward off, say, an instance where someone wanted to apply his fists to my face. If I’d had a gun then, would that have counted?
In meta, sure.
For purposes of counting and tracking, it becomes a lot less clear. I’m not sure that the various police depts. across the country track and collates such data, making hard numbers difficult.
Not at all; if someone is (pre?)disposed to committing violence, having a gun doesn’t increase the risk of violence; it just increases the risk of it being lethal.
Scumpup said it, and I’ll expand: the vanishingly small (yet non-zero) portion of the gun owning population (legal and otherwise) disposed/predisposed to violence due to emotional instability/immaturity or through involvement in criminal activities is NOT sufficient cause to restrict the rights of the 99.9999+ of gun owners who never do anything more harmful than punch holes in paper (deer, elk, etc.) with their guns.
My family has supported the NFL football for years. We see a few games a year in person, buy merchandise & supported our Team’s new stadium bid …but after the ridiculous mis-use of his position , Bob Costas offended our family with his irresponsible commentary recently regarding “gun culture” .
As a concealed carry guy, I do have a concealed gun in my pocket at all times that are legal to do so. I feel it is needed to ensure the safety of myself and my family. I first started carrying a handgun in 1994. I have completed a required handgun safety course, qualified at the gun range, passed an extensive criminal background check and the Sherrif in my county has personally reviewed and signed the approval for my permit to carry a handgun. I am not a threat to myself or my community.
When BOb Costas takes time to push a private agenda filled with misinformation, he infuriates us loyal NFL fans. I am doing the only thing I can do as a response and that is to boycott your NFL games and your network tv programs as a whole until you recognize publicly that this is wrong. Bob Costas needs to be fired .
I don’t like certain things in life but I don’t use my position or job to push my ideology on the customers that my employer services. That would most certainly cost me my job, so I work at work and i discuss my personal world views or opinions, on my own time, among folks that care to hear my two cents worth.
Bob Costas doesn’t work for the NFL. And I’m not sure how his commentary qualifies as “irresponsible” even if what he said was off-base.
Bob Costas is a Full-Of-Himself-Butthead with a shitty haircut. “Hey look at me, I report on sports, and use the word “Predicated”.”
Costas was referencing an “NFL gun culture” his network and the NFL should be knocking him for his despicable abuse of his position as a broadcaster. An unemployed broadcaster would be even better .
What are you quoting? Costas did not say anything about an NFL gun culture. The Whitlock piece does refer to U.S. gun culture. (And after rereading your post it does sound like you’re talking about boycotting NBC, Costas’ actual employer. So you did get that right.)
That’s some haircut.
That was exactly my point. Thank you.
ETA: ‘just’? Oh, my. Details, details.
Your original point implied (heavily) that the gun was the cause of the violence; that the presence of a firearm caused someone to be violent.
I sort of got from what he said that guns don’t cause damage-they increase it.