Costas Mocks NRA Members: Not 'Spiritual
Heirs' of Founders
by Tony Lee 18 May 2013, 2:38 PM
PDT
Showing his disdain for NRA members,
NBC sportscaster Bob Costas mocked those who attended the
NRA Convention in Houston earlier this month and said today's
defenders of the Second Amendment were not people the country's founders had in
mind when ratifying the Constitution. He made his comments during Friday's
appearance on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight."
Costas said while "there are legitimate
Second Amendment points to be made and some of the points that they make should
be part of a reasonable discussion," many NRA convention attendees have "this
extremist absolutist view of the Second Amendment, which they cloak in
high-minded talk about freedom and patriotism, they are the true
patriots."
"Forgive me if I doubt that if the
founders were reincarnated, that they would say, 'let's head to Houston, because that's
where our intellectual and spiritual heirs can be found,'" Costas said, in a
mocking tone. "'Let's stand shoulder to shoulder -- with everybody at the NRA
convention, because they're exactly what we had in
mind.'"
Bob
Costas
Bob Costas is a
sportscaster for NBC Sports, and a
condo owner at 15 Central Park West,
New
York.
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network at NBCUniversal.
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