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More Guns Mean Less Crime
Firearms advocate smacks NBC sportscaster for getting facts ‘completely wrong’
NBC sportscaster Bob Costas is trying to clarify comments he made during Sunday night’s broadcast that America’s gun culture is partly to blame for the murder-suicide perpetrated Saturday morning by Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher.
Costas now says he’s not in favor of repealing the Second Amendment or denying people the right to own firearms for the purpose of protection or hunting. However, he claims there’s no need for anyone to have a virtual arsenal of weapons or to have any automatic or semi-automatic guns.
Gun Owners of America Executive Director Larry Pratt said Costas was wrong in his premise on Sunday night and is just as wrong in his attempts to clarify his position. He’s especially dubious of Costas’ allegation that guns escalate volatile situations into deadly ones.
“I appreciate his pointing out the problem of guns escalating situations, because I’m frequently having to rebuke my own guns and tell them to just chill out and stay in the holster,” mused Pratt. “That’s really silly to impute some kind of ability like that to a firearm. What he’s hoping to do is blame anything or anybody but the criminal who made the decision to be a criminal.”
Just think what would happen to the U.S. firearms industry if semi-automatic weapons were banned. It would be devastating!