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Bob Costas: Did Founders Want Us Buying ‘Cop-Killer, Armor Piercing Bullets?’
Breitbart's Big Journalism ^ | March 21, 2015 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 03/23/2015 9:37:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

On the March 20 episode of Real Time With Bill Maher, NBC Sportscaster Bob Costas laughed off criticism of his many pro-gun control comments and added to them by asking if people really believe the Founding Fathers wanted “private citizens… to purchase cop-killer, armor-piercing bullets” and an “AK-47″?

Maher opened the door for Costas to do so by citing topics Costas has spoken on –“gay, guns, head injuries”– and suggesting Costas “has to” talk about these things because not other “sportscaster” or “broadcaster” is doing it.

The focus then turned to Costas’ April 2014 suggestion that athletes can’t be trusted with guns, a rant in which Costas lamented our “gun culture” and the “sorry incidents” that happen because athletes own guns.

In reiterating these points to Maher, Costas pointed to NFL defensive end Greg Hardy, “who just got signed with the Cowboys but sat out most of last year because he was involved in a domestic violence case, which is prevalent in the NFL, and dominated the news last season.” The only link Costas could make between the domestic violence case and firearms was that Hardy “threw” his girlfriend “on a couch with loaded shotguns and assault weapons on [it].”

Costas was so absorbed in criticizing guns that he failed to note that guns weren’t used in the acts he was attributing to Hardy. Rather, the violence his girlfriend faced was allegedly committed with Hardy’s own hands.....

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics; Sports
KEYWORDS: banglist; bobcostas; boob; racism; sports
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yep! and grenades too!


21 posted on 03/23/2015 9:55:36 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes because they ensured Bob’s right to whine about it.


22 posted on 03/23/2015 9:57:34 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Ted Cruz 2016!)
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To: chris37

Of course right now at current prices they rightfully should be called Wallet Killers.


23 posted on 03/23/2015 9:57:58 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What, bullets couldn’t kill cops in 1787?


24 posted on 03/23/2015 9:58:35 PM PDT by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In 1776, a “cop killer bullet” was literally any bullet as cops didn’t have ballistic vests. And yet, the founders were okay with it.


25 posted on 03/23/2015 10:01:36 PM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

nullum delictum, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali


26 posted on 03/23/2015 10:03:06 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: MaxMax

LOL :D


27 posted on 03/23/2015 10:04:35 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
He said that people who answer these questions in the affirmative need to take their line of thinking “to its logical conclusion.” And that means, “if you are fearful [of] a tyrannical government taking away your rights as citizens then you ought to have a bazooka, you ought to have a tank, you ought to be able have nuclear weapons if you can get them before ISIS can get their hands on them.”

Okay. I'm good with that.

28 posted on 03/23/2015 10:14:55 PM PDT by Jagdgewehr (It will take blood.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Did the Founder’s stake their lives and fortunes so fairyass “sports reporters” could prognosticate on things they know nothing about?


29 posted on 03/23/2015 10:15:54 PM PDT by TigersEye (STONE COLD ZOMBIE SCOURGE)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Damn right. Those are just made-up terms to make things sound scarier than they already are to the willfully, woefully ignorant, Bob.


30 posted on 03/23/2015 10:17:43 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: TigersEye
Did the Founder’s stake their lives and fortunes so fairyass “sports reporters” could prognosticate on things they know nothing about?

Yes.

31 posted on 03/23/2015 10:18:01 PM PDT by Ken H (DILLIGAF)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bob, 70% of the Cannons used by the Patriots in the Revolutionary War were Privately owned.

I wonder if those Cannons would be considered “Cop Killers”?


32 posted on 03/23/2015 10:19:55 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Advertising Space Available here.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Idiot. What does he think an .80 caliber round ball would do to someone that it hits?


33 posted on 03/23/2015 10:24:00 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
...the Founding Fathers wanted “private citizens… to purchase cop-killer, armor-piercing bullets” and an “AK-47″?

You bet your sweet ass they did, you pathetic jockstrap sniffer.

34 posted on 03/23/2015 10:25:53 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Eagles6
Yes indeed. The Second Amendment was instituted by men who had lived through the Revolutionary War, and some of whom had actually used the state-of-the-art military-grade shoulder-fired weapon... the "assault weapon" of its day... to go against not only civilian police (which largely did not exist at the time) but the career soldiers in the army of one of the leading global powers of the day.

Yes, they knew very well what they were doing, and they meant exactly that.

35 posted on 03/23/2015 10:26:08 PM PDT by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, if they knew what ISIS looked like coming at you, I’m sure they would be okay with bullets which would stop them DEAD in their tracks.

Okie dokie


36 posted on 03/23/2015 10:26:30 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("The hour has arrived to gather the Harvest")
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To: Oberon

Exactly.


37 posted on 03/23/2015 10:29:13 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: Ken H

Yeah, no kidding.


38 posted on 03/23/2015 10:35:00 PM PDT by TigersEye (STONE COLD ZOMBIE SCOURGE)
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To: Eagles6

Did the founders intend for the police to have armor?


39 posted on 03/23/2015 10:36:25 PM PDT by JohnnyP
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey Bob, did the Founders really want us having opinionated, egotistical asses pontificating ignorant views over a system capable of reaching more people than were even alive when the First Amendment was argued and written? I don’t think so, you Mr. Costas are no longer allowed to use a system capable of launching mass illogic bombs and freedom piercing hyperbole! Stuff that in your one red left shoe and smoke it.


40 posted on 03/23/2015 10:37:40 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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