Nothing like closing the barn door after the horses have gone, Mr. Whitlock, the damage has been done. Maybe next time act more like a professional journalist. So now we know. Nine shots and blood-alcohol twice the legal limit. But before we knew those facts folks like Jason Whitlock and Bob Costas had already pretended to know just the right reason why this happened. And pontificated on same and ran the ball even further from the football field into the political arena. Like fish out of water.
from ESPN.com
Kasandra Perkins, slain girlfriend of Kansas City Chiefs LB Jovan Belcher, shot nine times -- autopsy - ESPN:
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher had a blood-alcohol level more than twice the legal limit when he shot his girlfriend nine times and then killed himself in front of his coach and general manager, an autopsy released Monday showed.
The Jackson County Medical Examiner report on Belcher, 25, raised new questions about whether police should have done more before the Dec. 1 murder-suicide. Officers found Belcher sleeping in his idling car about five hours earlier, but let him go inside a nearby apartment to sleep it off.
Jovan Belcher had a blood-alcohol level more than twice the legal limit when he fatally shot his girlfriend nine times and then killed himself, an autopsy showed.
At the time of the autopsy, Belcher's BAC was 0.17, more than twice the limit of 0.08 percent for Missouri drivers, and it was likely higher when he shot girlfriend Kasandra Perkins, 22, at the couple's Kansas City home.
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Jason Whitlock's semi-mea culpa from Fox Sports:
Whitlock: My real take on gun control after Jovan Belcher tragedy - NFL News | FOX Sports on MSN:
The NRA traffics in fear, division and the seductive power of guns — the same tools used by the KKK. Other than money, I don’t think the NRA has a dog in the race. It just wants all sides armed to the hilt and convinced the other side is ready to shoot. That’s the recipe that left a 17-year-old Jacksonville kid dead over loud music blaring from a car.
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Costas weighs in from Legal Insurrection:
» If Jevon Belcher didn’t possess a gun, would he and Kasandra Perkins really both be alive today? - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion:
Bob Costas’ commentary on the murder-suicide involving Kansas City Chiefs player Jevon Belcher is receiving a lot of attention.
I understand the points, via Ed Morrissey, that people don’t tune in to a football game for gun control proselytizing, and that Costas focused on the gun control issue rather than the core issue of domestic violence.
If Jevon Belcher didn’t possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.
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Good job fools. But this is how media circuses are formed and used by politicos to push agendas and get laws passed that wouldn't pass under normal, more rational circumstances. Whitlock is nothing more than a bomb-thrower here and Bob Costas is once again a patsy and a fool .
Using Pelosian logic, he had to pass judgement on the article before he could read it.
You didn't think that this is "how laws are made" garbage you heard in grade school is how things work in the real world?
Sorry students, welcome to the real world!!
Oh playa, Puh-lease!!! It's more the Delphi Technique and the Hegelian Dialectic now.
Remember the infamous "beer summit" when Barack Obama was first elected? That came from his penchant for speaking first and then asking questions later. Before all the facts are in.
from thepoliticalguide.com:
http://www.thepoliticalguide.com/Profiles/President/US/Barack_Obama/Scandals/The_Beer_Summit/
Involvement of the President
The controversy involved President Obama when he was asked during a health care press conference what he thought the arrest said about race relations in America. The President then recounted the event noting that at the time it was believed that Professor Gates lost his keys. Despite acknowledging that he did not have all the facts at hand, the President stated that it could not be denied that the police in the incident "acted stupidly". He then went on to cite that statistics show that blacks and hispanics are targeted by cops more often than other races, tying one issue to the other.
How about Trayvon Martin and that fiasco? Haven't heard much about him lately. Probably because someone did a cursory background check on him and told the president "Bad choice for the son you never had there chief"
from the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-if-i-had-a-son-hed-look-like-trayvon/2012/03/23/gIQApKPpVS_story.html
The nation’s difficult history with race relations has been central to the narrative of Barack Obama’s rise to the presidency and has often complicated the ways in which he deals with the issue both as a candidate and as president.
The problem you run into is not unlike the lesson learned from the parable of The Boy who Cried Wolf.
from wikipedia.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf
The tale concerns a shepherd boy who repeatedly tricks nearby villagers into thinking a wolf is attacking his flock. When a wolf actually does appear, the villagers do not believe the boy's cries for help, and the flock is destroyed. The moral at the end of the story shows that this is how liars are not rewarded: even if they tell the truth, no one believes them."[2] This echoes a statement attributed to Aristotle by Diogenes Laërtius in his The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, where the sage was asked what those who tell lies gain by it and he answered "that when they speak truth they are not believed".[3] William Caxton similarly closes his version with the remark that "men bileve not lyghtly hym whiche is knowen for a lyer".[4]
So then comes a story that might perhaps merit a racial bias or discrimination angle -- like the Jordan Davis shooting in Jacskonville, FL -- and where is the coverage of this story? Nowhere!! Whitlock may have alluded to it briefly, but nothing from the nations capital that I'm aware of.
Apparently, no political agenda could be advanced by this case, at this time. No political mileage could be gained for this story to be advanced.
from Foxnews.com
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/11/27/florida-man-charged-with-killing-teen-over-loud-music/
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Florida man has been charged with fatally shooting a teenager outside a Jacksonville convenience store following an argument that was triggered because the music coming from the teen's car was too loud.
Michael Dunn is facing murder and attempted murder charges in the shooting of 17-year-old Jordan Davis. Davis was waiting inside the car with two other teenagers while the car's 19-year-old driver made a purchase inside the gas station. Dunn was outside the store waiting for his girlfriend.
"They were listening to music. It was loud, they admitted that," said Lt. Rob Schoonover, a homicide detective with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. "But that's not a reason to open fire ... and take action."
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