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I've always liked Charles Barkley. The Round Mound of Rebound is one of the most underrated "great" basketball players of all time. To do what he did in the paint at his size shows a man with ferocious determination and will to win. Not only that, but he may be the only man on the planet with a worse golf swing than me. But I digress.
Barkley's outspokenness is another trait I admire in him. Never one to shy away from controversial topics, his comments have often landed him in hot water. I don't always agree with what he says, but this time he is absolutely spot-on.
The murder rate in the black community is not a gun issue, it's a crime and violence issue. In this clip scheduled to air tonight, Sir Charles takes Bob Costas to school on gun ownership.....
Huh, whaddaya know? A black athlete who has owned and carried a gun all of his adult life, and somehow has managed to not dump a magazine into the body of a friend or family member. How can this be? Perhaps its because Charles Barkley is not a murderous criminal, and Jovan Belcher was. Period.
I love the little anecdote about Tony Dungy at the end of Costas's pathetic whining. He seems absolutely dumbfounded that 65 of the 80 Colts players owned guns. Was there a twinge of underlying racism in his conjecture? You tell me. About 65-70% of NFL players are black. If we apply that to the Colts training camp he was talking about.....about 45 of those gun-owning players were black. Costas's firm belief that you can't have 45 black guys with guns without something bad happening seems far more racist to me than anything the Tea Party has had to say over the last few years.
Come on Bob, what are you really saying? That we just can't trust black guys, particularly black athletes, with guns?
As far as Johnny Mac goes, I think we can all agree that it's probably not a good idea for him to carry a gun given his placid demeanor.....
My hometown NFL team, the Kansas City Chiefs, was rocked over the weekend by a heinous crime involving one of their players. Early Saturday morning, linebacker Jovan Belcher shot and killed his 22 year old girlfriend Kassandra Perkins in their home. Belcher then drove to Arrowhead Stadium, and killed himself in front of GM Scott Pioli and head coach Romeo Crennel with a gun shot to his head. The couple has a 3 month old daughter.
My focus today is not the crime itself, I will leave that to others more qualified. I would like to discuss the entirely too predictable response by the anti-gun crowd. Just as we saw in the wake of Aurora, this violent crime has given new vigor to those who would ban the private ownership of firearms. In particular, let's focus on the comments by noted Constitutional scholars Jason Whitlock and Bob Costas.
Whitlock is a former Kansas City sports columnist and sports talk radio host who has been hired and fired by seemingly every sports media company in the country. He currently writes for Foxsports.com, and penned this column in response to the Belcher shootings. I mined these little nuggets from the column....
...We'd prefer to avoid seriously reflecting upon the absurdity of the prevailing notion that the second amendment somehow enhances our liberty rather than threatens it.
...What I believe is, if he didn't posess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.
And the piece de resistance of anti-gun lunacy...
...Handguns do not enhance our safety.
Whitlock's specious and intellectually bereft comments were echoed on NBC last night by Bob Costas during Sunday Night Football.
Let's face some "ugly reality" as Mr. Costas puts it. Human beings have the potential for great violence and depravity. For some of us, that potential lurks closer to the surface than it does for others. It can be enhanced by mental (and physical) illness, financial stress, interpersonal conflict, and any of thousands of other stressors. When a human being succumbs to these demons, the availability or lack thereof of a firearm is not what determines the ultimate outcome. Five minutes of Google research unearthed these recent events..
A Wyoming college professor was killed by his son in a murder-suicide committed with a bow and arrow
64 year old Henry Hamilton killed himself by ingesting an overdose of prescription medicatons.
Janee Parsons, an American woman living in Oxfordshire, England was stabbed to death by her husband in front of their 2 children.
A Staten Island woman, Jodi Surinaga, was bludgeoned to death with a metal baseball bat. The alleged assailant, her husband, attempted to hang himself with a belt after the crime.
Tim Schuster was bound to a chair by his wife, and died when she poured a barrel of hydrochloric acid over his body.
A Washington man, Mark Williams, was murdered by his wife with a large hammer.
32 year old Lorna Valle drowned her two children, ages 1 and 5, in the bathtub.
Pravartika Gupta, a 25 year old Indian woman, was burned to death by her husband because she gave birth to a baby girl instead of a boy. (Note to Mr. Gupta, perhaps a quick biology review is in order. The gender of a baby is determined by which chromosome (X or Y) it receives....from its father)
A Bronx man killed his 5 year old son with poisoned pizza.
An Azusa, CA man attempted to kill his wife by poisoning her Rice Krispies.
Thomas Mortimer beat his wife, 2 children, and mother in law to death with several objects, including a frying pan
28 year old Holly Solomon ran over her husband in a parking lot because he did not vote against Barack Obama in November's election. Her defense of justifiable attempted homicide seems to have some merit.
Bow and arrow, prescription medication, fire, cooking utensils, acid, pizza, Rice Krispies, hammers, cars, water.... you name it. Deranged people will use any tool at their disposal to commit acts of violence that most of us simply can't understand. There is one big difference between all these items and handguns......handguns are used in self-defense an estimated 2-3 million times a year in the United States. Try that with a large pepperoni pie or a bottle of Oxycontin.
Another addition to the "List of Tyrants who have croaked
since SACSTW came on the scene"
Kim Part 3 looks like the voice of reason,
doesn't he?
Not only is Kim Jong ill, he's dead. After continuing his father's legacy of brutality and oppression for 17 years, the ruler of North Korea has died. Reports indicate he suffered a heart attack on Dec. 17th, and died shortly therafter. The designated successor is Kim Jong il's son, Kim Jong Un. In a gesture surely meant to reassure neighboring South Korea that regime change will be peaceful and non-threatening, North Korea test-fired short range missiles off its eastern coast yesterday. I feel better already!
Here's another story about good samaritans paying off layaway accounts for holiday shoppers. Thanks to Sahib for bringing this story to the attention of the SACSTW community.
The Green Bay Packers dreams of an undefeated season and their 19 game winning streak died on the turf at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. Fourteen point underdogs going in to the game, the KC Chiefs authored the biggest upset of the NFL season with the assistance of an actual NFL coach and a professional quarterback.
By now you have heard that the National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) has called for a nationwide ban on all usage of "portable electronic devices" while driving. Specifically aimed at cell phones, this ban would include texting, voice calling, and even use of hands-free equipment. While the Crew agrees that distracted driving is a threat to us all, this falls under the category of "you can't fix stupid" (with apologies to Ron White). Look for bans of other driving distractions to soon follow, mascara, Egg McMuffins, billboards for strip clubs, and daredevil squirrels. By the way, how would this ban affect those who are actually driving a "portable electronic device"? Both Chevy Volt owners want to know. For more information on distracted driving, readers are directed to P.J. O'Rourke's classic essay "How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink!".
