Right to Opine

Another NBC sports analyst let his liberal mindset bleed through on-air. From the network that gave us Keith Olbermann, we shouldn’t be surprised. May we please just watch a football game without being subjected to your drivel?

To finish the half-time roundup during Sunday night’s game, Bob Costas gave us a pious (albeit mercifully brief) diatribe, ending with:

If Jovan Belcher didn’t possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.

Really? And what great powers of omniscience granted this knowledge?

Christopher Krumm had no gun, but he and his father’s girlfriend are still dead—by his own hand wielding a knife. (He killed his dad with an arrow.)

So what now? Ban knives? Why don’t we just ban kil…oh, yeah. Murder is already illegal. Someone missed the memo.

The truth is that Belcher and his girlfriend did not die because of a gun, but because Belcher chose to end their lives. It’s a story as old as humanity. Cain didn’t have a gun.

But focusing on the weapon allows liberals to avoid placing the blame and responsibility where it truly lies—on the perpetrator. It’s exactly the same tactic of misdirection used by the Left to deny the fact that while we all start this life with varying levels of advantage and privilege, where we end up is mostly a consequence of the choices we make.

It also ignores the underlying cause of every such tragedy: the human race is not good by nature. Man is inherently sinful, and until that root cause is addressed no amount of gun control, education, or income equalization will cure society’s ills.