We knew that as soon as it was announced that Belcher had killed his girlfriend and then turned the gun on himself there would be the controversy over the second amendment. It seems that the left goes crazy over someone using a weapon to murder someone. We have some sad news for them. The gun only fired after someone pulled the trigger! For those who hate guns, this is an amazing fact.
For some reason, the "gun-haters" believe that weapons discharge by themselves which rational people know is not true. They also believe that without a gun being present (as Costas also does) no one would ever die from murder. Somehow, Jovan Belcher would have found a way to kill his girlfriend if he did not have a weapon. He might have selected a hammer, a kitchen knife, a baseball bat, a car accident?? or acid to do the deed. Regardless, his girlfriend would be dead.
It is an old saw but very true--guns don't kill people, people do! It's time for people to understand that the gun is a tool which can be used for good as well as evil. Anything can be misused but that does not make the tool bad.
Conservative Tom
For some reason, the "gun-haters" believe that weapons discharge by themselves which rational people know is not true. They also believe that without a gun being present (as Costas also does) no one would ever die from murder. Somehow, Jovan Belcher would have found a way to kill his girlfriend if he did not have a weapon. He might have selected a hammer, a kitchen knife, a baseball bat, a car accident?? or acid to do the deed. Regardless, his girlfriend would be dead.
It is an old saw but very true--guns don't kill people, people do! It's time for people to understand that the gun is a tool which can be used for good as well as evil. Anything can be misused but that does not make the tool bad.
Conservative Tom
Before The Body Goes Cold
December 4, 2012 by Ben Crystal
PHOTOS.COM
While Jovan Belcher’s final act appalls me, that revulsion is nothing compared to how I feel about the ghouls who jumped on the situation in order to push political ideologies. Writing for FOX Sports, Jason Whitlock managed to turn the orphaning of a 3-month-old into a bizarre rant against the 2ndAmendment.
Our 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. … What I believe is, if he didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.
A man takes a 22-year-old woman’s life, orphans their child and then kills himself, and Whitlock “believes” guns are to blame. Granted, Whitlock is well-known for allowing his political ignorance to obstruct his reason; witness his infamously racist attack on NBA star Jeremy Lin. But he’s hardly the only commentator who has seized on tragedy to promote an assault on the Constitution like a vulture seizing on roadkill. I find it fascinating that pseudo-journalists like Whitlock and his allies in hate groups like the Brady Campaign either can’t or won’t learn that a culture that excuses virtually every perversion, every failure and every crime as somehow being the fault of inanimate objects, YouTube videos or “the rich” might produce exactly this sort of outcome.
Whitlock wasn’t the biggest player to “Belcher” his own credibility on the altar of anti-Constitutional hate; he was simply the first to do so. Sunday night, NBC’s Bob Costas committed what should have been career suicide thusly:
You want some actual perspective on this? Well, a bit of it comes from the Kansas City-based writer Jason Whitlock with whom I do not always agree, but who today said it so well that we may as well just quote or paraphrase from the end of his article.
Oh, poor little Bobby; you went from respected sportscaster to left-wing buffoon in less time than it takes an NFL trainer to tape an ankle. I didn’t expect much from Whitlock; I did expect more from you.
The President and at least two of his accomplices, Attorney General Eric Holder and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, have participated in paper-thin cover-ups involving murder, weapons trafficking, perjury and outright lying; and we’re told that anyone who notes their crimes is racist for doing so. Professional athletes behave like steroid-addled gladiators who’ve just been furloughed from the Thunderdome, and we’re supposed to ignore their behavior because they sell tickets and jerseys and/or show up for the occasional charity event. Hell, Charlie Sheen, who is the poster boy for Dionysian self-indulgence, has parlayed coke binges and domestic abuse into wink-nod ad campaigns for Fiat.
It’s important to recognize that there is no such thing as gun control. Gun control is merely a convenient rhetorical camouflage for the real goal of so-called “gun control” proponents’ parent philosophy: “people control.” It’s more important to recognize that the people who desire such control over their fellow citizens are poor choices to wield it. Furthermore, it’s important to recognize that there is no such thing as “gun violence.” There is violence — on the football field, in Chicago and in programs run by the Departments of Justice and State. But that’s all “people” violence.
When agitators like Whitlock and Costas turn a tragedy into a podium from which to expound on their own personal political causes, they not only diminish the suffering of the victims and their loved ones, they distract — often deliberately — from the real root causes of violence and pain. And their macabre attempts to spin political thread from human suffering only compound the real pain being suffered by the real victims
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