So, here comes Bob Costas, well known Football Television Personality, to add his Voice to the Necessity of Gun Control.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/04/15679906-bob-costas-on-gun-control-comments-availability-of-guns-makes-mayhem-easier?lite
If we are to understand Bob Costas correctly, he would severely restrict the Availability of all Guns; a laudable Objective and one that stands about as much Chance as a Snwoball's Chance in Hell. Something has to be done about Guns; we agree with Bob Costas although, from a Practicality Point of View, starting with a Prohibition on Automatic and Assault Weapons in the Hands of ordinary Citizens would seem a more logical Place to start.
What Bob Costas fails to observe, lamentably (but also understandably), is that he is part of an ,,Industry'' and Culture which is the most violent Team Sport that one can think of and one which makes a Lot of Money for him and for Lots of other People. Although there is overwhelming and still growing Evidence that Football Players are highly prone to ,,Traumatic Encephalopathy,'' a fancy Medical Term which simply means that People who are hit too many Times on the Head are likely to sustain Brain Injury, little, indeed nothing is being done to curb the Popularity of this violent ,,Sport.'' Young Men in College, High School and, indeed, young Boys in School and Preschoolers are herded in Droves by Peer Pressure and Parents to play Football, the ,,Macho Sport'' each Player, starting from a very tender Age, becoming a Candidate for this horrific Disease. A malfunctioning Brain can drive a Person such as Jovan Belcher to pick up a Gun and shoot Kassandra Perkins and then himself, in public, at that. A malfunctioning Brain can also cause a Person to pick up a Butcher Knife or a Bludgeoning Iron and commit equally horrific and even more horrifyingly graphic Acts. A malfunctioning Brain can also cause one, as many other ex Football Players have, to die, horribly and needlessly, without even having killed another Person.
So, yes, Mr. Costas, we all agree with you that there should be Gun Control Legislation and even as stringent as you seem to think, or maybe even more stringent, but how about not trumpeting Football as being such a wonderful Sport and rather seeing it as an Incubator of horrific Brain Injury Diseases on so many People?
How about toning down or even prohibiting so many young Men, young Boys and even Kids in engaging in this purposeless Violence which you and others, help it achieve Cult Status?
On Board with that one, too, Mr. Costas?
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/04/15679906-bob-costas-on-gun-control-comments-availability-of-guns-makes-mayhem-easier?lite
If we are to understand Bob Costas correctly, he would severely restrict the Availability of all Guns; a laudable Objective and one that stands about as much Chance as a Snwoball's Chance in Hell. Something has to be done about Guns; we agree with Bob Costas although, from a Practicality Point of View, starting with a Prohibition on Automatic and Assault Weapons in the Hands of ordinary Citizens would seem a more logical Place to start.
What Bob Costas fails to observe, lamentably (but also understandably), is that he is part of an ,,Industry'' and Culture which is the most violent Team Sport that one can think of and one which makes a Lot of Money for him and for Lots of other People. Although there is overwhelming and still growing Evidence that Football Players are highly prone to ,,Traumatic Encephalopathy,'' a fancy Medical Term which simply means that People who are hit too many Times on the Head are likely to sustain Brain Injury, little, indeed nothing is being done to curb the Popularity of this violent ,,Sport.'' Young Men in College, High School and, indeed, young Boys in School and Preschoolers are herded in Droves by Peer Pressure and Parents to play Football, the ,,Macho Sport'' each Player, starting from a very tender Age, becoming a Candidate for this horrific Disease. A malfunctioning Brain can drive a Person such as Jovan Belcher to pick up a Gun and shoot Kassandra Perkins and then himself, in public, at that. A malfunctioning Brain can also cause a Person to pick up a Butcher Knife or a Bludgeoning Iron and commit equally horrific and even more horrifyingly graphic Acts. A malfunctioning Brain can also cause one, as many other ex Football Players have, to die, horribly and needlessly, without even having killed another Person.
So, yes, Mr. Costas, we all agree with you that there should be Gun Control Legislation and even as stringent as you seem to think, or maybe even more stringent, but how about not trumpeting Football as being such a wonderful Sport and rather seeing it as an Incubator of horrific Brain Injury Diseases on so many People?
How about toning down or even prohibiting so many young Men, young Boys and even Kids in engaging in this purposeless Violence which you and others, help it achieve Cult Status?
On Board with that one, too, Mr. Costas?
