Kansas City Cheifs loss

Branching off of my last post concerning the gun control issue that we have there was another big story that was brought to my attention through the news and also by my teacher Miss A. It was the Kansas City Chiefs player that shot his girlfriend then himself. He was one of the starting line men on the team, therefore making a huge impact to the other players.

Beckler had gone mad, no one knows what drove him to do this but it was insanity. He shot his girlfriend, who he also had a child with, leaving the baby to his mother to take care of. After he did this he went to his bosses on a Saturday, thanked them for everything they had done and expressed his love for the game of football to them. After he had made his aspirations he pulled out a gun and shot himself in front of his bosses. This caused major havoc. For the rest of the day the coaches, owners, and NFL presidents were trying to figure out what they should do about what just happened and if they should play the following day.

They ended up playing the next day. The decision to play was looked down upon by most and commented on by some famous reporters and announcers. Whitlock is a writer that put out an article describing what had just happened and focused part of it on gun control.   Bob Costas is a NFL commentator that during half time of the Kansas City Chiefs game took a moment to quote Whitlock and say a few things about what was going down.

Many were confused on why they played the game the next day. Some said that the players are paid to block things out of their mind and play the game so they would be able to focus. The NFL also doesn’t stop playing a game other than an environmental issue or an attack. To the public we would think that the players would be in complete shock and be mourning, but they were able to play the next day and show their sadness after the game was done.

They are testing this brain and other parts of Beckler’s body to try to figure out what drove him to do this kind of behavior. They hypothesized that from all of the concussions this may have caused brain damage.  Other things may have attributed to it but they are thinking that the game of football, with injuries and the violent nature of the game didn’t do Beckler any good.

This is just another prime example on how guns are becoming more and more of an issue. People say that guns don’t kill people, people do, but if people didn’t have the guns in the first place then they wouldn’t be shot. (471)