Cenk Uygur
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Conservatives Go Ballistic Over Costas' Gun Control Comments
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December 4, 2012
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12:21Now Playing"Bob Costas' "Sunday Night Football" halftime commentary supporting gun control sparked a Fox News Channel debate Monday on whether NBC should fire him and a Twitter storm involving Ted Nugent, Rosie O'Donnell, Herman Cain and many more.
The NBC sportscaster, who frequently delivers commentary at halftime of the weekly NFL showcase, addressed the weekend's murder-suicide involving Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher.
Costas said that the shooting has invoked the "mindless sports cliche" that "something like this really puts it all in perspective."
"Please," he said. "Those who need tragedies to continually recalibrate their sense of proportion about sports would seem to have little hope of ever truly achieving perspective."*
Cenk Uygur breaks down the massive conservative freakout over Bob Costas' gun control comments after the shooting murder-suicide involving Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher. Many conservative pundits go straight for the argument that if someone wants to kill, they could do so just as easily with another weapon. Cenk shows us why that and other commonly used pro-gun arguments are wrong.
*Read more from AP via Bloomberg Businessweek:
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