Bob Costas advocates gun control during half time show. Did he cross a line?
Bob Costas, the NBC broadcaster, called for gun control following the murder-suicide by Kansas City Chiefs player Jovan Belcher. Costas views sparked an immediate uproar in social media.
Bob Costas spoke for 90 seconds during the Sunday Night Football half time show in support of gun control.
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Arlington, Texas
NBC broadcaster Bob Costas used his halftime segment on "Sunday Night Football" to advocate for gun control following this weekend's murder-suicide involving Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, causing an immediate debate on social media.
In a segment about 90 seconds long, Costas paraphrased and quoted extensively from a piece by Fox Sports columnist Jason Whitlock.
Whitlock didn't agree with the decision by the Chiefs to play the game Sunday. He wrote:
"I would argue that your rationalizations speak to how numb we are in this society to gun violence and murder. We’ve come to accept our insanity. We’d prefer to avoid seriously reflecting upon the absurdity of the prevailing notion that the second amendment somehow enhances our liberty rather than threatens it.
How many young people have to die senselessly? How many lives have to be ruined before we realize the right to bear arms doesn’t protect us from a government equipped with stealth bombers, predator drones, tanks and nuclear weapons?
