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NBC Uses NFL Murder-Suicide Tragedy For Half Time Entertainment To Plea For Gun Ban [VIDEO]

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Chiefs quarterback Brady Quinn, sadly, has experience dealing with situations like this.

That doesn’t make the aftermath of Jovan Belcher’s suicide after killing his girlfriend any easier for him and his teammates to deal with.

Quinn described a somber scene at the Chiefs facility yesterday, when coach Romeo Crennel addressed the team not long after watching Belcher take his own life

“It was obviously tough for Coach to have to tell us that,” Quinn said. “He really wasn’t able to finish talking to us. We got together and prayed and then we moved on.”

During halftime of NBC’s coverage of the Philadelphia Eagles versus the Dallas Cowboys, NBC Sports analyst Bob Costas made a plea for gun control during his weekly commentary on “Sunday Night Football.”

Responding to the weekend murder-suicide by Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, Costas relied on a column by writer Jason Whitlock, formerly of the Kansas City Star, to make a gun-control argument.

“Well, you knew it was coming. In the aftermath of the nearly unfathomable events in Kansas City, that most mindless of sports clichés was heard yet again.

Costas quoted Whitlock’s suggestion that a gun ban would have prevented the tragedy.

The majority of gun-related deaths in the United States are suicides, with 17,352 (55.6%).

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    • Equalizer

      Ignorant fool

    • LEAVEMEALONE

      Hey Bob , when did you become an authority on gun rights . When you became a professional jock-sniffer ? Take your liberal b.s. and shove it where the sun doesn’t shine !!!

    • Anonymous

      I wish the murderous thug had had two guns and shot itself twice.

    • Joe7000000

      With the logic used by our anti-gun friend, all buildings taller than 4 feet must be banned. After all, many people jump or push others from tall buildings. For the same reason all bridges should be banned. Automobiles are also known to have been used as weapons and a means of committing suicide. And the list goes on forever…

      God must not have intended this world to be safe or he would have installed air-bags as part of the human anatomy.

      I wonder how many bleeding heart liberals carry concealed guns for self protection? :evil:

    • Cap-Z-ro

      So…with ” gun control ” he would have simply stabbed the victim and sped off at high speed, possibly killing some one else.

      Brilliant logic there Costas…you paid off nitwit.

      I wonder how long it would have taken NBC to cut him off if he decided equate the murder to the high level of violence in the media, not to mention the violent “sport” which that arsehole himself glorifies every week ?

      My guess is he would have lasted about 7 seconds…and he would be out of a job as a consequence.

      This done while he pretends he doesn’t know that his network helps to keep the masses blind to the fact that the US “government” was behind 911.

      Take your kids to the airport a few times Bob…and then tell them you aren’t responsible when they are molested by the TSA that you helped create.

      What a useless douche bag.

      • Josey Wales

        O.J. didn’t need no stinking gun.

    • Whiskey Zero

      I guess you’re going to have to ban ropes and pills as well because people kill themselves that way too. Keep trying to ram gun control down our throats…won’t work and never will.

    • Anonymous

      It is not the guns owned by the populace, that is the problem but rather those owned by the authorities. Gun control is a con being played out on the masses.

    • xlgmedium

      Thanksgiving night a woman stabbed a family member with a fork now Obama is calling for a ban on all assault forks.

    • Anonymous

      GUN CONTROL!
      Hold your gun with both hands!

      • Cap-Z-ro

        Why did that last post all in upper case vanish ???

        • Mayhem

          Cap-Z-ro wrote…”Why did that last post all in upper case vanish ???”

          Did it contain truth Cap? :wink:

          :cool:

    • XDM40

      Yes folks, that was an egregious abuse of the public broadcasting platform and NBC should be severely admonished for it (had any team other than the cowgirls been playing I would have turned it off.) How can the general public trust NBC? If there was a national emergency is it possible that NBC might accidentally forget to activate the emergency broadcast system notification in the “red” states? :evil: We’ll show those gun-totin rednecks!!! Muuahahahahaha! :twisted: Truth is, when the SHTF, who are they gonna come runnin to for protection? hmm???

    • Fox Mulder

      According to this nitwit dwarf, murder and suicide didn’t exist before the invention of guns. This moron gets paid to talk?

      • Mayhem

        ….and the only tool “we” got to fight back with is to keep hoping that the truth will come out and that in the end good will triumph over evil.

        We know an armed society is a polite society. THEY know WE know but it doesn’t suit their plan where we the “useful idiot sheeple” simply obey. Keep drinking ya Kool-Ade

        I don’t have guns and I try to be non violent these days but I’m nuts enough to know how to get what I need when TSHTF.

    • sowhat

      If this moron has a daughter who might someday be the target of domestic murder I wonder if he would prefer her to be stabbed to death, strangled, burnt alive, drowned or just beaten to death? More people die from knife wounds each year than from shootings. The man is an idiot.

      He is such a hypocrite it is sickening. How many times has this happened in the NFL alone and no one goes near the subject of severe brain injuries and the drugs these men are put on that only mask the problem. I have a feeling that Belcher was either taking psychotropic drugs or strong steriods, both of which have proven to turn ordinary people into violent offenders. Costas makes his money working in the very industry that promotes this sort of horrific act and has the nerve to blame it on a gun. Any man determined to kill someone in front of his own mother would have done so regardless of the method. Costas never mentioned the possible tie between the head injuries and dangerous medications. Hank Williams Jr. was let go as the singer icon for Monday night football due to expressing his right to freedom of speech on his own personal time and not on national tv. Costa needs to go and go now. Yep, he endorses and promotes what is really nothing more than modern day gladiators who keep getting patched up and thrown back into the fray with no one giving one d#mn about their well-being. I hope the whole truth of what drove Belcher to kill comes out and will be a warning to all athletes and kids who wish to enter this career. To Costa I can only say keep your stupid mouth shut, climb off your pious soap box and be the hypocrite you are and keep getting rich off the industry that destroys young men.

      • Josey Wales

        Bobby was only doing as his masters instructed. Mass media blitz starting now, against small arms. The masses will follow.

        • Cap-Z-ro

          Middle-aged-Mayhem wrote:

          “Cap-Z-ro wrote…”Why did that last post all in upper case vanish ???”

          Did it contain truth Cap? :wink:
          …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

          You know, I believe it did…just can’t recall the jist of it tho.

          As a matter of fact every post here has been sensible.

          I am totally against violence, but I know full well that a there’s nothing like a warm gun to keep the peace in our intentionally constructed violent society..

    • sowhat

      Bob Costa also has an armed body guard and lives in a gated community. It is ok if someone he pays to pull a trigger on his behalf. I hope his sorry ass gets fired today!

      • Cap-Z-ro

        I look forward to the day when Costas and his kind are living in the kind of ‘gated community’ where the windows have bars and they don’t have the key.

        • sowhat

          Costas is just another nobody wannabe kissing up publically to the PTB. Now the world knows what a hypocrite and butt kisser he is.

          I am also sick of the dimwits who keep saying if he hadn’t had a gun he would have cooled off in minutes and the murder would not have happened. If that is the case why didn’t he cool off after the first shot, the second shot, the third shot or the fourth one? Knowing his own baby girl and his own mother were there, with his mother watching, his rampage went on and on. Someone that out of control would have committed the same crime no matter what weapon was available.

      • Cap-Z-ro

        Yes, and if it wasn’t over quickly, the violence may have escalated to the point where he killed his mother also.

        Six of one, half a dozen of the other.

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