James Harrison NFL Linebacker (Smarter than Bob)

[Chizzang]

This entire article is excellent...
I could care less about guns - but - I think James Harrison sums it up nicely

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/blog/eye-o ... er-tragedy" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[SuperHornet]

For me, I don't like guns. Hate 'em. With a passion. But, like a kid "hating" math or sports merely because they suck at them, I recognize that that is largely why I hate guns.

I see NO way to logically justify going from there to banning all guns from the general populace. That would kill certain sports for starters (everything from modern pentathlon to track and field). As Harrison says, criminals would still find a way to get them. People are also scared of the possibility of a kid getting hold of a loaded weapon. Red herring in my book. Responsible people don't allow that stuff to happen. Weapons are properly kept either at a registered armory or inside a special safe if kept at home, with mags separated from the weapons and the chamber cleared. The only time the weapon comes out is for cleaning (and, yes, a responsible gun owner cleans and oils it on a REGULAR basis), a trip to the range, or (if kept at home) to defend the premises against a prowler. When done properly, there is ZERO chance of a kid getting access to the weapon.

So I can't shoot for beans. That certainly didn't fit with the profile of a professional bodyguard for chaplains, but my talents were better suited for the admin and library roles of a chaplain's assistant. MY shooting woes do not translate into keeping weapons away from RESPONSIBLE people. There are mechanisms for removing weapons from irresponsible owners. Allow them to be used and be done with it....

[BDKJMU]

Barkley:

"....“I think, especially in the black culture, it’s a crime culture,” Barkley said in tonight’s episode of “Costas Tonight” on the NBC Sports Network. “We, as black people, and I always say we, we don’t have respect for each other. We got more black men in prison than we do in college, and crime in our neighborhoods is running rampant. I know everybody reacts when something like the Belcher thing happens, but being black, this is something you deal with all the time, and it’s just sad. I’m a guy and I carry a gun. I carry a gun.”
Barkley, who will turn 50 in February, said he has carried a gun for about 30 years and has never used it.

“I carried a gun in my car, every year of my life since I was 20 — never had to use it,” he said. “I just feel safer with it because we have jocks who get robbed all the time, road rage and things like that. I feel a sense of peace when I have it with me, but it would take extreme circumstances for me to even touch it.”....

“I hope people don’t [emphasize] the gun situation. I’m very sensitive to domestic violence because I have a daughter [who is 23 and that's just one thing that I cannot accept in any shape or form whatsoever. It's just a crazy situation.
"I don't get into the gun stuff. Some guys have guns who go hunting. Where do we stop [gun control] at? I’m not a hunter, but we can’t say people can’t have guns. … Let’s not make this thing about guns. Let’s make this about mistreating women. That’s unacceptable.”....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ear ... -to-blame/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[eagleskins]

This guy is the biggest thug in sports. Kind of makes the point for Costas.

[SuperHornet]

This guy is the biggest thug in sports. Kind of makes the point for Costas.

Harrison? Barkley? I think a bigger case could be made for people like Suh, Dobler, and Tatum being thugs....