Chiefs QB offers thoughtful reflection on teammate's murder-suicide

Costas used NBC's broadcast of the Cowboys-Eagles game to opine on Saturday's murder-suicide in which Belcher killed his girlfriend and then shot himself. Costas cited and quoted from a column written Saturday night by Fox Sports' Jason Whitlock, who noted how numb our society has become to gun violence.

In saying that the Second Amendment threatens our liberty, Whitlock wrote that Belcher's actions would be analyzed to see if there were ties to football and head injuries. But ultimately, if he didn't have a gun, Belcher and Kasandra Perkins “would both be alive today.” Costas whole-heartedly concurred.

But it's too easy to blame the weapon or gun laws. Better to focus on the drivers of domestic violence and particularly the issue of mental illness, something Chiefs quarterback Brady Quinn did in eloquent remarks Sunday. Quinn focused not on a numbness to guns, but on our numbness to each other.