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Bob Costas: I Was Talking About The "Gun Culture," Not Gun Control
RCP Video ^ | 12-5-2012

Posted on 12/05/2012 12:32:09 PM PST by Sir Napsalot

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BOB COSTAS: "...... What I was talking about here, and I'm sorry if that wasn't clear to everybody, was a gun culture. I never mentioned the Second Amendment. I never used the words gun control. ......"

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
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To: Boogieman

bob costas should stick to getting more botox, hair dye and facial plastic surgery. bob...if you are reading this...please leave “broadcasting”...you are a buffoon.


61 posted on 12/05/2012 2:38:29 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: muir_redwoods

Yes, and it gets even stupider than that. For example:

“He said, ‘How many of you guys own a gun?’ And roughly 65 hands went up. Even if all those guns were obtained legally, you can’t have 65 guys in their 20s and 30s, aggressive young men, subject to impulses without something bad happening.”

As if there are not millions upon millions of 20-30 something young men in America who own guns without something bad happening.

Then, there’s this nugget:

“Give me one example of an athlete. I know it has happened in society. But give me one example of a professional athlete who by virtue of his having a gun took a dangerous situation and turned it around for the better. I can’t think of a single one.”

Why would he even proffer that argument unless he means to imply that professional athletes should be excluded from firearms ownership?


62 posted on 12/05/2012 2:39:10 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

I used to have respect for the man i even thought he might make a good commissioner for football or baseball.
Now he has proven to be another Katie Couric or Joy Beher!
Liberals always show or try to show their money makes them more intelligent than the average voter, leaving common sense behind!
So tired of the money elite thinking they are the stuff!
Bob you just lost a fan stick to sports. Oh yea never pick up a gun it would tarnish your image for sure now!
OH and be sure to put a lock on all your kitchen knives!
and any sharp object that can inflict death!
Back ground checks and 3 day wait should be for all objects
of harm from rope to autos! Save us LibS!


63 posted on 12/05/2012 2:42:43 PM PST by Conserev1
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To: Sir Napsalot
Yep. Dumb jockstrap sniffer doesn't know when to stop digging.
64 posted on 12/05/2012 2:58:25 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Sir Napsalot

Bob Costas:

Squeak, squeak, squeak. Furthermore, squeak. In addition, squeak, squeak. And may I add squeak. Finally, squeak, squeak. squeak.


65 posted on 12/05/2012 3:06:36 PM PST by sergeantdave (The FBI has declared war on the Marine Corps)
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To: Sir Napsalot
listen stooopid, it's better to be thought a left wing sissy gun grabber in silence, than to open yer piehole and remove all doubt...

66 posted on 12/05/2012 3:20:18 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Sir Napsalot; All
You mean "hip hop culture" right Bobbie?
67 posted on 12/05/2012 3:51:41 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (Read SCOTUS Castle Rock vs Gonzales before dialing 911!)
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To: hinckley buzzard

“Gun culture” = racist code. Just sayin’.


68 posted on 12/05/2012 3:53:14 PM PST by rintense
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To: MrB; All

It was the “culture” of Mike Vick who tortured and killed dogs.

And don’t remember, if you see anything, DON’T SNITCH!


69 posted on 12/05/2012 3:53:27 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (Read SCOTUS Castle Rock vs Gonzales before dialing 911!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Soon we hope to say “Who is Bob Costas?”


70 posted on 12/05/2012 3:57:59 PM PST by justrepublican (Screaming like a "Vexatious requester" at a Wellstone memorial...........)
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To: Sir Napsalot

which gun culture was he talking about, the criminal one, or the law-abiding, concealed carry, nra type...?


71 posted on 12/05/2012 4:52:45 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: theBuckwheat

By the way, sorry about the large font. I meant to make it a *little* bigger, but...it took off.


72 posted on 12/05/2012 5:28:56 PM PST by rlmorel (1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)
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To: Boogieman; All
Here is the example of a defensive use of firearms by a professional athelete that Costas asked for:

http://bal.scout.com/a.z?s=118&p=2&c=226737&ssf=1&RequestedURL=http%3a%2f%2fbal.scout.com%2f2%2f226737.html

OWINGS MILLS – A masked man invaded veteran Baltimore Ravens cornerback Corey Fuller’s home in Tallahassee, Fla., early Wednesday morning. The assailant repeatedly fired a semi-automatic pistol at Fuller before and after breaking down the front door. The man fled after Fuller and a house guest returned fire. No one was harmed, according to police reports.

73 posted on 12/05/2012 7:00:41 PM PST by marktwain
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