Jovan Blecher Tragdey--Tragedy Not Caused By A Gun #2

More on the Jovan Belcher tragedy. 
The idiots are coming out of the woodwork! Jason Whitlock says that had Javon not had a gun, both of them would be alive! What craziness!  He shot his girlfriend 9 times! Did he have to re-load? This was not a passing argument, he was really upset! For anyone to assume that both would not have died had there not been a gun, stretches any credibility. This is all political grandstanding. They are trying to make an argument trying to relate two unrelated issues.  He was mad, she died and he felt bad and killed himself. That is it, nothing more.

Conservative Tom

The Gun Did It

December 4, 2012 by Bob Livingston 

SCREENSHOT

Jovan Belcher and Kasandra Perkins were the parents of 3-month-old Zoey.

Jovan Belcher didn’t kill Kasandra Perkins and himself. The gun did it.

Daily abuse of alcohol and painkillers didn’t contribute to Jovan Belcher’s murderous and suicidal rampage. The gun did it.

The effects of too many blows to the head suffered by his choice of profession didn’t have anything to do with it either. The gun did it.

“Maybe brain damage triggered his violent overreaction to a fight with his girlfriend,” sportswriter Jason Whitlock wrote on Sunday. “What I believe is, if he didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.” NBC’s Bob Costas then doubled down on this idea during halftime of the Sunday Night Football telecast, quoting two anti-gun paragraphs from Whitlock’s article.

Belcher’s problem was not that he owned a gun. His problem was in the choices he made. He chose for himself a brutal and violent profession that left him racked with pain and possibly with a damaged brain. Rather than find a better way to make a living, he chose to continue to play and try to mask the pain with daily doses of alcohol and drugs, ignoring the effects they were having on his already addled brain.

Then, not appreciating the value of human life — his own and that of the mother of his child — he chose violence as a way out.

By blaming the gun, Whitlock and Costas attempted to absolve Belcher of any responsibility for his actions. They also attempted to deflect attention away from football — which indirectly pays their salary.

Football is a violent sport. Violent people play it. That violence is encouraged by the owners (through the offering of huge contracts), coaches and, most importantly, the fans, who wildly cheer the most violent of impacts. A violent reaction from a football player should come as no surprise. And research is showing that repeated concussions cause unexpected behavioral changes.

But it wasn’t the gun that killed Perkins and Belcher. It was Belcher. Guns are tools and nothing more. Belcher was on a murderous rampage — shooting Perkins nine times, which denotes a violent rage — and he could have (and no doubt would have) just as easily used a knife, a hammer or a screwdriver to kill Perkins. There are dozens of ways he could have offed himself.

To blame the gun is the work of fools or people trying to protect their livelihood, or both.

Jovan Belcher--Tragedy Not Caused By A Gun #1

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

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 2^ndAmendment.

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