No, Bob Costas is not going to call for a ban on cars just like he called for a ban on guns. Because, for one, he didn't call for a ban on guns — his halftime commentary was about the role guns play in intensifying dangerous situations. Also, cars have purposes other than punching holes into objects at terrifying and deadly speeds. No one's surfing speedy bullets for transportation.
Maybe Costas could comment on how drinking and driving make for a disastrous undertaking. But few people are actively justifying drunken driving as a constitutional right. Few insist that a document written in the age of horse-drawn wagons intended absolutely anyone to access vehicles that can top 200 mph. Even people who do drink and drive realize on some level that what they're doing is indefensible and likely to hurt someone. Josh Brent, for one, will have to live with Jerry Brown's death for the rest of his life. It wasn't intentional, even for a split second, like a murder-suicide.
But again, everyone knows that. Apparently that's not the case with firearms. If Costas doesn't devote a commentary to this issue, that — not any political double standard — is the reason why.
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