Bob Costas Thinks Guns Kill People- So Does His Mic Make Him A Pompous Ass?

You know, we Conservatives can only make the “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” argument abundantly clear so many times before giving up on morons and discarding them into the muck of stupidity. It’s time to let Bob Costas fall into the pit of “no one gives a @#$% that you’re even here.” Paraphrasing Jason Whitlock- another sports guy that thinks we give a damn about his opinions- Costas said this during a Sunday night football game this week, speaking about the murder suicide deaths of Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, and his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins:

“What I believe is, if he didn’t possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.”

I’d like to ask Bob Costas, “So, are you saying that if you didn’t have a microphone, you wouldn’t be a pompous ass?” Every human being is in control of their actions, and even if they are mentally disturbed, it is still not the gun’s fault if they commit a crime. I mean, cars are readily available for anyone to buy or drive. Should we make them illegal in order to put an end to drunk driving deaths? The answer, to anyone with common sense, is no. If Ted Kennedy didn’t have a car, Mary Jo Kopechne would still be alive (barring natural death or another accident of some kind), but that’s certainly not a reason to ban cars in the name of reducing drunk driving deaths.

Let me make this simple for folks that think like Bob Pompous Costas…

True: Guns are used in Crimes across America, every day

False: Guns commit crimes

If citizens know how to properly handle and respect guns and other weapons, and people are able to carry them on their person, fewer crimes would result in the loss of innocent life. Everyone should know how to handle a gun for safety and protection. If you start your policy by taking guns out of the hands of non-criminals, you start by crippling any chance people have to defend themselves. Taking guns from all citizens only hurts those who obey the law, and anyone that is going to use guns for committing crimes, especially violent crime, will not give a damn about  a piece of paper somewhere that says they can’t have one. Teach everyone gun ability and responsibility, and you will reduce violent crimes, because if anyone anywhere could have a gun in their pocket or purse, people will think twice before they commit a crime (in general people will think this way). For those dumb enough to do it anyway, they will be met with a citizen army prepared to defend those around them. It makes sense if you think about it logically, but if you try to fit that logic peg into “feelings” hole, it won’t fit. Some people are afraid of guns, and they actually think that if all weapons are illegal everywhere, crime will magically stop. The reality is the opposite. If no one is allowed to have a weapon to defend their life and their property, then it is free for the taking, and believe me, no one knows that more than the criminals. That’s how we existed before governments and the rule of law. Anyone could walk right in and take your stuff, your wife and kids, or kill you, and if you didn’t have a weapon to defend yourself there was nothing you could do about it. That is the reality of the Liberal fantasy that is gun control. It deprives good citizens of their rights, and emboldens those who would do them harm. We have the second amendment for protection. Not for hunting or target practice, but for protection- from the government, and from other people. But then, if we have the ability to defend ourselves, it’s harder for the government to overtake the masses when the economy collapses and a new age of social consciousness is ushered in, isn’t it? Just a thought.

         Now, let’s get more specific. The more pressing matter here is the correlation between domestic violence ending in homicide, and a gun present in the home…

True: Homes with domestic violence AND a gun carry a higher probability of homicide resulting from domestic violence

False: Guns commit crimes

This is so obvious, it makes my brain hurt when people don’t understand. Yes, domestic violence plus gun in the house equals a higher probability of domestic violence ending in a homicide. If you did a study on knives in the house vs. knives not in the house, the correlation would be very similar, if not exactly the same. But you will never see that study, because who do you know that doesn’t have a single knife in the house? Probably no one, unless you have an ultra Libby in your life. That study would show that having ANYTHING that can be used as a weapon in the house leads to a much higher possibility of a case of domestic abuse ending with a dead person. That would negate the statistic toting Liberals’ argument, so no one is jumping at the chance to shed light on that truth. The same would be true if you considered baseball bats, or belts or anything else. The bottom line is, if a violent person has access to weapons, it is more likely their abuse will result in a murder. You can’t single out guns because you’re afraid of them.

The Liberal solution is to take the gun away from the domestic violence offender. So…you want to leave the dirtbag, sorry excuse for a human being, that beats women, in the house, with knives and belts and probably a baseball bat or two…but you want to get rid of the inanimate piece of metal that can’t do anything without being acted upon by an outside force (like a dirtbag, sorry excuse for a human being that beats women)? That, my friends, is what we call wishful stupidity, or as I like to call it, “Libby Logic.” You don’t reduce domestic violence occurrences that end in homicides by removing the gun- or the knife or the baseball bat for that matter. All that does is eliminate one avenue of death. If someone truly wants another person to die, they will find a way. So you don’t blame the gun, and remove our second amendment right AND an avenue for the victim to defend herself (sometimes himself, but more often it’s the guy committing domestic violence). Instead, you go for the violent PERSON. There are a lot of factors that contribute to domestic violence- mentally unstable individuals, fearful victims that are afraid to leave so they end up enduring multiple beatings, drug and alcohol abuse, a lack of educating people in how to avoid these situations and the people who commit these crimes, a lack of preparing people to deal with these situations if they arise-both mentally and physically, blurry lines on certainty of conviction and punishment, and so on down a long list. Here is the BEGINNING of ONE solution: we need to start from the time kids begin formal education, and we need to teach them that 1) Violent crime is immoral (yes, a lot of things are immoral, but we’re talking about this one right now) and reprehensible, especially homicide, and it will be punished severely 2) Taking the life of another human being, if not done in self defense, is cowardly and reprehensible will be punished severely. As with any crime deterrent tactics, people need to know that if they beat their significant other (or anyone) or kill them (or anyone), they WILL be prosecuted, they WILL be punished, and they need to know EXACTLY what they crime will be. I think there should be a severe jail sentence for domestic violence (tie the sentence to the severity of the wounds, and add some for mental abuse too), and if it ends in homicide (not self defense) it should carry a MINIMUM of life in jail without parole (as I think any non self defense, non-clinical insanity murder should. You take someone’s life, you trade your own, regardless of any reason but self defense and actual insanity).

In an effort to curb my rant here let me just sum it up: guns are not the problem in cases of domestic violence, people are. We can debate for days about what can be done to keep PEOPLE from entering a mental state where they decide that beating and/or killing their partner is a viable solution to their issues, and frankly that is the right debate to have. However, taking guns from everyone because some people are unstable does not solve anything. It actually makes matters worse. If Kasandra Perkins was well trained with a gun, and had one of her own, she might still be alive. We’ll never know, but I believe her chances would have been much better. We have the right to keep and bear arms, first and foremost, as a protection from a tyrannical government, and secondly as a protection from individuals who would do us harm. This is a simple issue folks. Gun crime does not go away when guns are banned. Just like assault and battery and murder have not gone away because they are illegal. You have to teach the teachable that it’s wrong, deter those who can be deterred from doing it anyway and punish those who still choose to engage in these crimes, swiftly and fiercely.

What really bothers me most about this incident (The death of two people far overshadows some NFL commentator’s ignorant comments. However, I’m speaking of his comments here, and what bothered me most about THEM, not the incident in general) is that Bob Costas decided that he is an authority that people should give a damn about- not a man with an opinion, but some kind of journalistic leader with a message. Bob Costas is no one, to anyone but himself. I have more moral fortitude in my big toe than Costas has in his big head. But, people buy into this kind of pseudo-leadership from left wing celebrities (Heaven forbid a Conservative celeb utters a few words of political rhetoric. They get crucified and Libbies are hailed as majestic moral messiahs). It’s a crying shame that Americans so blindly listen to people like Bob Costas, or anyone in the media for that matter. It is never OK to assume someone is telling you the truth. THAT used to be the backbone of journalism. Now ideology has become the pedestal on which “journalism” sits, and looks down over its glasses at us. It’s pathetic, and it has to stop.

As I always insist, go find out for yourself. Never blindly listen to a celebrity, or even an actual expert, and certainly not me. Take everything with a grain of salt. Trust, but always verify.

Stay Conservative, and Keep Looking to the Future