Monday, December 03, 2012

Bob Costas Steps Onto Gun-Control Minefield - The Daily Beast - But having decided to walk through this minefield, Costas tiptoed by offering not his own assessment but that of someone else. He approvingly quoted Jason Whitlock, a longtime Kansas City sports columnist who now writes for Fox Sports: - “Our current gun culture,” Whitlock wrote, “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." - “Handguns do not enhance our safety. They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it. In the coming days, Jovan Belcher’s actions, and their possible connection to football, will be analyzed. Who knows?" - “But here,” wrote Jason Whitlock, “is what I believe: If Jovan Belcher didn’t possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.”

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