Bob Costas and Jovan Belcher: Can We Talk About Domestic Violence and Guns? : The New Yorker

Bob Costas and Jovan Belcher: Can We Talk About Domestic Violence and Guns? : The New Yorker:

 "Costas performed a service by bringing the issue up. Most politicians haven’t been that brave. What is so radical, so wrong, about imagining Kasandra Perkins, safe, or at least alive, without a gun in sight?"

Costas had quoted Whitlock after using half of his brief commentary to complain about hearing “that most mindless of sports clichés … something like this really puts it all in perspective,” adding “You want some actual perspective on this?”:

“Our current gun culture,” Whitlock wrote, “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.”

“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.”