Good lord...for the love of god never get a gun.

I'm pretty sure Jwhit meant to say "illegally obtained guns" as well as "illegal drug use". He's talking about the black market that nobody, including groups such as the NRA, wants to confront. I'd agree, but the other premises he brings forward I do not agree with.

That link/report is not very useful in the analysis of gun related murder because it excludes the most common drug associated with gun related murder -- alcohol.

Have a look at this-

Alcohol link in 47% of murders

ALMOST half the homicides between 2000 and 2006 involved the consumption of alcohol, according to figures in a report.

A paper released by the Australian Institute of Criminology showed that of the 1565 murders recorded in that period, 746 or 47 per cent were classified as alcohol-related and, in 60 per cent of these incidents, the victim and offender had been drinking alcohol.

The Alcohol and Homicide in Australia paper drew on victim toxicology reports.

The institute's general manager (research), Dr Judy Putt, said eight of 10 homicides occurring in recreational venues were alcohol related and homicides on weekends or evenings were most likely to involve alcohol.

"Factors like gender, employment status, age, the relationship between victim and offender, as well as whether those involved were of indigenous backgrounds, affected the likelihood of alcohol being involved," Dr Putt said.

"Homicides involving male victims, unemployed victims and young offenders were also identified as most likely to have been alcohol related."

The paper also shows that 44 per cent of intimate partner homicides were alcohol related.

"The study found homicides where a male victim was killed by a female intimate partner were highly likely to be related to alcohol consumption (73 per cent), indicating that it is a more significant factor in intimate partner homicide than indicated by previous studies.

"Eighty-seven per cent of intimate partner homicides among the indigenous population were alcohol related, making it the highest proportion of alcohol-related homicide of all factors studied," Dr Putt said.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/alcoh...#ixzz2E5XxDyr1

Nice. Thanks to Costas' bit at halftime Sunday night, Jason is on the NRA radar. Bob Dole will post the ILA email response if nobody else gets to it. (Copy and paste is a PITA from mobile.)

I don't own a gun, but I'm a firm believer in the 2nd amendment. Outside of that, whatever.

I don't care if he wants to advocate for gun control, but the NRA is KKK just makes him sound like a moron.

Whitlock could have easily used this to address the real, and more serious addiction issues going on with more and more athletes.

Making this about guns is refusing to look any deeper at what the real issues with a lot of athletes.

"Hey Bob I totally agree with you. I don't know why people are so mad."

"I agree with you Jason. Neither do I."

"You're so smart and great, Bob. This is an important issue."

"You're smart and great Jason. This is an important issue and I wanted to bring it up."

"We're smart."

"Yeah, we're smart and noble."

There's your podcast.

Holy Shit.

May NitWhit and Costas be butt buddys.

NRA = KKK?.....is he ****ing serious.

for being educated, he can sure be stupid on a lot of subjects.

Bob Costas was on the Dan Patrick show and was semi back pedaling, but then went full on stupid and asked why do people need semi automatic weapons. But claims to support the 2nd amendment. Its easier for people like him to add that qualifier, but then add stupid caveats along with it. They think it helps.
DP was spot with him, he said he thought he was a little heavy handed with his last remark about if he didn't have a gun these two people would probably be alive. Costas back pedaled and said those were Whitlocks remarks I was quoting him and couldn't reach him to add my qualifiers before hand. Costas is a tool.

Great take by another Sports Writer who disagrees with JWhit...

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/k...-rights-120512

from your link;

"What I believe in my heart is Jovan Belcher was going to find a way to wreak havoc that day whether he had a gun or a knife or only his fists. And even the potential to stop him is not justification for willingly handing over rights guaranteed to us"


I agree with this writer's assertion and will add we need to take a serious look at drug abuse in this country. It's a major component in this incident & others like it.

He injected a political opinion just like Rush Limbaugh did. They are both tools for including that garbage.