Bob Costas

America’s gun culture demonstrates itself in the Wild West, Dirty Harry mentality of people who actually believe that if a number of people were armed in the theater in Aurora, they would have been able to take down this nutjob in body armor and military style artillery. When in fact almost every policeman in the country would tell you that that would have only increased the tragedy and added to the carnage.

If every university president said, ‘The revenue producing sports: basketball, football – potentially revenue producing at most universities – maybe in a few cases women’s basketball, if every one of them had a monitor that reported directly to the university president and no ‘student-athlete’ ever gets into this college or university who could not plausibly be admitted if we did not have a football or basketball team, end of problem. It won’t happen because it’s like unilaterally disarming. You know your opponent won’t do it and then you’ll get crushed in every game, but it’s a simple thing.

I can’t do anything about how people who are all but completely unaware of my actual motivations and my actual thought process and my actual worldview, how they characterize me. There’s not much I can do about it, except never say another word other than ‘there’s a ground ball to shortstop.’ And I don’t think that’s going to happen.

Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead… What I believe is, if he [Belcher] didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today… Handguns do not enhance our safety. They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it.

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