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Bob Costas offers wager to his gun critics
Politico ^ | 04/03/2014 | By TAL KOPAN

Posted on 04/03/2014 12:28:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Sports broadcaster Bob Costas is not backing down in the face of criticism for his outspoken advocacy of gun control. In fact, he’s challenging his critics to a bet.

Costas was asked about the controversial political positions he has taken on the air, including gun control, in an interview with “Late Night” host Seth Meyers, and said it’s very much an issue in sports that deserves to be talked about.

“Here’s what I would say to anybody who any time they hear the word guns automatically goes off, like, ‘Oh, they’re going to repeal the Second Amendment,’” Costas said. “Let’s make a bet, you and me. Let’s say over the next five years we’ll do a Google search. We’ll have an independent party monitor it. You keep track of how many good and constructive things are associated with athletes having a gun, and I’ll keep track of all the tragedies and criminality and folly. And let’s see who comes out ahead or behind as the case may be.”

Costas said regardless of Americans’ positions on gun control generally, it’s undeniable that sports has a “gun culture.”

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

I agree that athletes and rappers should be exempted from the second ammendment.


81 posted on 04/03/2014 3:26:33 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: SeekAndFind
What kind of asinine bet is that? Of course a bunch of arrogant, irresponsible, dumbass athletes are going to have more negative gun stories than positive. Positive stories aren't even reported generally.

Mr. Costas is an idiot. Winning his bet would prove absolutely... nothing.

82 posted on 04/03/2014 3:40:40 PM PDT by sargon (I don't like the sound of these here Boncentration Bamps!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
"hardly ever"

In my sixty plus years, I have only read of one case in the local rag where a common citizen brandished a firearm to chase away intruders. Some years ago an area woman noticed a bunch of scruffy teens on her rural property. She came out the door with a shotgun in her hands, and the kids quickly vamoosed. It turned out the teens (eventually caught) had been vandalizing/stealing from vacant, rural homes.

That is the only time I can remember the rag publishing a story like that. Stories in other parts of the country with citizens defending themselves with firearms are never printed. The average reader is led to believe that firearms are only used in the commission of crimes or accidental deaths, especially of children. They want you to believe that no common person has ever successfully defended themselves with a firearm.

83 posted on 04/03/2014 4:20:51 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: SeekAndFind
Hey, Bobbity Bob:

“Let’s make a bet, you and me. Let’s say over the next five years we’ll do a Google search. We’ll have an independent party monitor it. You keep track of how many good and constructive things are associated with athletes having girlfriends, fast cars, alcohol, 'medicine,' groupies, money, sex organs, publicity, bling, mouths, interviews, opinions, cameras, influence, phones, videos, motorcycles, big houses, celebrity friends, vacations, fists, muscles, and dogs, and I’ll keep track of all the tragedies and criminality and folly. And let’s see who comes out ahead or behind as the case may be.”

84 posted on 04/03/2014 4:37:24 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault
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To: SeekAndFind

Not all athletes are thugs. I would take Bob up on that bet as long as he considers hunting a “positive” use of a gun. And, I bet none of them have had any negative experiences, the cases of Aaron Hernandez or Rae Carruth are rare indeed.


85 posted on 04/03/2014 5:27:59 PM PDT by sharkhawk (Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall.)
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To: SeekAndFind

How would we know? The MSM refuses to print stories that suggest that a gun saved the day.


86 posted on 04/03/2014 7:06:12 PM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: NFHale

I can’t stand seeing his pinkeye or his pink anything on tv.


87 posted on 04/03/2014 7:10:33 PM PDT by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: stevio

He’s a typical lib POS.


88 posted on 04/04/2014 12:04:59 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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