Football Writer King Blasts Away At Second Amendment In ‘United States of Guns’

Peter King, football journalist turned out to be a radical in his advocacy for gun control. He used his sports column as a platform to promote the cause. He also called this country the “United States of Guns.” In his column Football Morning in America, he demanded more gun laws and called for a ban on the sales of AR-15 rifles. 

King said he “will also remember the 32 people murdered over the last 16 days in our country, in Buffalo at a supermarket, in a church in Laguna Woods, Calif., and in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.” He ignored the 52 people who were shot in Chicago’s weekend bloodbath. 

King also wonders why America’s lawmakers are not open-minded enough to solve the “cancerous” problem of gun violence, which in his closed-minded view, only entails gun control. King put Texas Governor. Greg Abbott was in his crosshairs.: 

What makes it so hard for someone as powerful and influential like Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas to say, ‘We have had too many events like this one in Uvalde, too many events when 19 children and two teachers were murdered in what’s supposed to be a safe space. We have to question whether teens, such as the Uvalde teenager who purchased a semiautomatic assault-style weapon just days after turning 18, are protected by the Second Amendment. It is important to consider whether 18-year olds have the right to purchase assault-style rifles. This would be in addition to the 10-year-old girls’ rights to education in peace. It is essential that all options are on the table. 

King asked why the governor of Texas can’t govern all of his citizens, including those shot and killed by the mass murderer in Uvalde. “Our country is sick.” Congressmen won’t consider changing “a law with tentacles that our forefathers could never, ever have imagined.” President James Madison, the architect of the Second Amendment, would not accept 18-year-olds with “killing machines that have no valid use for civilians other than fast and mass murder.”  

King dismissed mental illness and the phrase “guns don’t kill people … We are the United States of Guns.” 

King demanded that America mandate stricter background checks, and cease selling AR-15s civilians. These aren’t even controversial demands, he wrote. 

Aside from King’s potshots, the Buffalo and Uvalde killers passed background checks. Gun grabbers also avoid an inconvenient truth about the lengthy list of gun laws broken by Columbine killers Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris in 1999. Gun control is simply an attempt to prevent law-abiding citizens from being able to defend themselves. Gun laws do not apply to deranged persons who still murder. 

King acknowledged that people believe a football column does not have the right place to rant about gun control. He says it’s time for him to stand up and be counted. He also thanked Steve Kerr from Golden State, Gabe Kapler of the Yankees, and Rays for pushing for gun control. 

It’s time for King to sit down now. It’s time for him and other sports figures and teams to stop the failed argument for gun control and focus on the issues of mental health and inadequate safety precautions. Guns are no different from the people who use them. It’s time to point blame at the killing fields in Chicago, Detroit and other large, dangerous cities.