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In reply to the discussion: Bob Costas just did an anti-gun editorial during half time of Sunday Night Football [View all]Mr. JJE
(4 posts)I am usually a Bob Costas fan. I certainly was when he held a moment of silence for the victims of the Munich Massacre. Today I am not a Bob Costas fan. Not because of his anti gun stance, he has a right to his opinion even if its wrong. Its the lack of thinking that he put into what he said. Violent crime is just that, violent. We don't know what happened that pushed this man over the edge. We don't know that he wouldnt have used a knife, or his bare hands. Would that have been more acceptable? Whether mental illness, steroid use, drug use, or any number of other factors led to this horrible event, we do know one thing...the gun didnt pull its own trigger. This is a murder suicide. Murder means intent. What we don't want to face is that the human condition and the way people are, is what is wrong here. Its easy to blame the gun. Costas has a right to his opinion, but politicizing these two deaths...is beneath his usual standards.