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Kasandra Perkins is dead. The
22-year-old mother of a 3 month-old child lost her life just as it was
beginning really. If you believe sports mouth Bob Costas it’s the fault of the
piece of metal that killed her rather than the maniac who took her life.
I’m a NFL junkie. This past weekend
you had to really listen hard to even hear Perkins mentioned. Her name popped
up in between messages about the tragic loss of Kansas
City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, the cold blooded murderer who killed
Perkins, his girlfriend, who then took the coward’s way out and offed himself
in front of his coach and GM.
Was the
murder-suicide a tragic event? You bet it was. But did it have anything at all
to do about Belcher’s potential, record, camaraderie in the locker room, hard
work on the practice field or mourning his loss on that football Sunday? That
shouldn’t have been the focus at all. It was obvious to even the simplest of
minds that he knew exactly what he did, and was doing.
Then Costas, as
so many lame and liberal media types do, had to inject his anti-gun,
anti-Constitution pabulum into the conversation using Kasandra as a pawn in the
gun debate. If you didn’t see Costas’ 90 second rant, check it out here https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uOi7If0zW9s
.
I can’t believe
I have to still fight this battle supporting our 2nd Amendment
rights in America. To put it quite simply (as we have again and again) guns
don’t kill people. People kill people. Criminals will NEVER obey gun laws, only
defenseless law-abiding citizens will obey those laws. If we simply enforce the
laws on the books when an individual uses a gun to commit a crime, that would
be sufficient.
Big government
liberals always want honest Americans to be defenseless. It’s worked when
governments/dictators in other countries have decided to take over, why not
here?
Costas says in
his tirade “If he did not have a gun, they would all be alive”. Aside from
being wrong, it is quite likely the method used by this madman to carry out his
will would have been far more hideous than what he did. And if those guns are
taken out of the hands of honest Americans Bob, perhaps someday soon you won’t
be allowed to sit on the tube and flap your gums without being locked up; or
worse. Think about that!
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