[zaga_fan]

In light of the tragic mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school last week that left 26 dead – including 20 young children – many across the country are offering up opinions on how we prevent this all-too-common occurrence in America. Several sports figures, especially coaches, have spoken out recently. At the end of UK coach John Calipari’s press conference today to preview the Cats’ game against Marshall tomorrow, he was asked if he had any thoughts on gun control, etc. Here’s a transcript of his response (or watch the video starting at the 10:29 mark):

“Well, I don’t see the need for assault weapons. I don’t see the need at all. But, again, we as a country gotta come together and say, ‘You have some mental illness issues. How do we deal with those?’ How do we truly deal with someone that has an illness and not shove it under the rug that it’s an embarrassing thing. Well, is cancer embarrassing? Mental illness, it’s an illness. We don’t need assault rifles. It’s a problem. Maybe it’s video games. I don’t know. It needs to be a dialogue of: How do we come to grips with this?

http://blogs.courier-journal.com/ukbeat/...th-issues/

[Granny Bear]

I must agree with SKINNYPIG. This sounds like a politician's responce.

There was little said that was clear and definitive; but for the assault weapons and need for mental illness awareness.

[Bob Seger]

I always liked Elvis Presley's answer when he was asked about his thoughts on the Vietnam War.

His answer was, "I'm just a singer".


It's like a really give a tiddly-toot what any of these "so called" celebritys think about anything. Most dont live in a real world to begin with. Calipari just needs to comment on what he's paid to do. Coach basketball at the University of Kentucky.

[Granny Bear]

Agreed, BUT, both Calipari and the players are schooled in how to respond during interviews. I would've thought his answer would have been just a little more.....what's the word......clear.

[Wildcatk23]

Cal tries to please both sides. He's a coach. Nothing more.

[SKINNYPIG]

Cal tries to please both sides. He's a coach. Nothing more.

I would hate to have a job that made me think I had to "please both sides" when asked a question. I suppose the money makes it bearable for those in that situation though.

The Elvis approach would be best. I would much rather Cal say "I'm just a basketball coach" than to do the whole Six Step Dance.

I'm sure Cal doesn't care what I'd rather he say, and that's cool. I live in the real world.

[Wildcatk23]

I would hate to have a job that made me think I had to "please both sides" when asked a question. I suppose the money makes it bearable for those in that situation though.

The Elvis approach would be best. I would much rather Cal say "I'm just a basketball coach" than to do the whole Six Step Dance.

I'm sure Cal doesn't care what I'd rather he say, and that's cool. I live in the real world.

I thought we all had to please both sides.

As a worker I have to please my company and make them money by in not so many words taking advantage if customers. And as a worker I have to please the customers by helping them get things for as cheap as possible.

[SKINNYPIG]

I thought we all had to please both sides.

As a worker I have to please my company and make them money by in not so many words taking advantage if customers. And as a worker I have to please the customers by helping them get things for as cheap as possible.

Oh, I thought we were talking about viewpoints and beliefs. You know, things that make each and everyone of us different.

You and Cal may have jobs that dictate how you respond (when asked) on national subjects such as gun control, or you may have jobs that dictate your personal beliefs on subjects outside of your job. I don't, nor do I want one.

My point is this...Pitino responded (without hesitation) that he doesn't see any need for guns. Point blank and to the point. I don't agree, but I respect his position. The King avoided looking like a politician in those situations by saying "I'm just a singer". Cal danced all around "thinking" he could appease both sides and IMO sounded like a mealy mouthed politician. No big deal, just giving my take on their comments is all.

I like Coach Cal. It's not like this has changed my view of him in any way. Just an observation of his remarks on a particular subject, nothing more.

You can please some of the people some of the time but, you're in trouble if you think you can please all of the people all of the time. Right?

[TheRealThing]

Oh, I thought we were talking about viewpoints and beliefs. You know, things that make each and everyone of us different.

You and Cal may have jobs that dictate how you respond (when asked) on national subjects such as gun control, or you may have jobs that dictate your personal beliefs on subjects outside of your job. I don't, nor do I want one.

My point is this...Pitino responded (without hesitation) that he doesn't see any need for guns. Point blank and to the point. I don't agree, but I respect his position. The King avoided looking like a politician in those situations by saying "I'm just a singer". Cal danced all around "thinking" he could appease both sides and IMO sounded like a mealy mouthed politician. No big deal, just giving my take on their comments is all.

I like Coach Cal. It's not like this has changed my view of him in any way. Just an observation of his remarks on a particular subject, nothing more.

You can please some of the people some of the time but, you're in trouble if you think you can please all of the people all of the time. Right?

As I pointed out in a previous post, history makes mention of a man who lived in Israel a little over two thousand years ago named, Herod the Great. He is best known for slaughtering all the male children from the age of two years and younger, of a rather large region of that nation which includes Bethlehem and the general vicinity. Guess what? He slaughtered all those precious little boys with out a gun, there were no guns back then, they hadn't been invented yet. He used the sword. I have no problem envisioning today's liberal, who, if transplanted back in that time, would be demanding that sword ownship be regulated.

There is certainly a link which can be drawn between these acts of atrocity, whether back in time with monsters like King Herod, or in modern times with one like Adam Lanza in CT. Lanza first murdered his Mother, on his way to kill potentialy hundreds of kindergarteners and others. That link however, is not between guns and crimes of epic proportion, any more than it would have been between swords and crimes. Rather it is between man's depraved nature and crimes of epic porportion.

Man has always deluded himself when it comes to his ability to commit such heinous acts. Most folks behave themselves and would not hurt an innocent. However, some would, because of their depraved state of being. I don't buy into this baloney about being innocent due to insanity, if they are a danger to others, they're still a danger whether insane or not, and therefore the general public who is allowed to be free, deserves to be protected from them. To me, they need to either be put away forever, or executed, never should there be any chance of parole.

We are so reluctant to punish the guilty in this country anymore, everytime one of these monsters (murderers) lands on death row, we get the liberals out there with candles burning, marching in protest around the penal facility of question, in the event of any execution. They would have done the same if one of the pilots of 9/11, who flew a airliner through one of the World Trade Centers, had lived to brag about his deed of slaughtering innocents. I can't resist drawing the obvious parallel here, the same bozo's that feel compelled to stand their all night candle-lit-vigil, for someone who may have murderered their own children, on the other hand have no problem whatever with Roe v Wade and the slaughter of millions of unborn Americans every single year here in this land. Talk about confused. With reality turned on it's head such as we see here in America these days, is there really any wonder why insanity has overtaken us?

This is the text from the 2nd amendment dealing with the right to bear arms--- "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
The liberals caused the mess we now endure, as was well demonstrated with all their bleeding heart foolishness regarding the so-called 'dignity of man' line of rationale, (excerpted language from the democrat platform under Mondale and Ferraro presidential ticket of 1984, George Orwell anyone?) The liberals have managed to remove any real threat to the person committing murder. Under the law, the death penalty has all but vanished.

Having taken his cue from the thinking of late 19th century theorist Charles Darwin, early 20th century French psychologist Emile Coue, may be the first to have dreamed up the lunacy that man is continually improving his nature for the better. He is best known for his method of self-improvement based on optimistic autosuggestion when as a therapy he suggested, "Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better". We're not getting better, as is plain to see for anybody, who would rather deal with reality rather than the departures, which represent the work product of today's liberal think tanks. The standard of morality from the beginning of time, God's Word, has been shoved aside for all this "brotherhood of man" blather. I mean, yet again is the world moving ever closer to the brink of world war, and the liberals are still lost in la-la land, singing "Kum Bah Yah" with nobody but themselves.

One of the main deterrents standing between our lives of continued freedom, and the governmentally induced landscape which, is the nightmare stuff of George Orwell's 1984, or the overthrow of our way of life from without, are the provisions of the 2nd amendment. You'd have to be sleepwalking or wilfully ignorant to the point of complicity, not to see the liberal assault being made on our freedoms. They don't call it "Gun Control", for nothing. Law abiding citizens don't commit crimes. I just pray that the mid-terms of 2014, are in fact the 'home free' opportunity to strengthen our traditional values (which are the values of our fathers FWIW), and we are able to cash in by voting out some of the dreamers.