'There is a gun culture and it isn’t good,' Costas said on 'The Daily Show.' Costas talks gun culture change

Sportcaster Bob Costas expanded on his recent statements regarding gun control in an interview with “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart on Monday.

“I think any sane person believes that we ought not to have high capacity magazines and assault rifles and that there ought to be background checks,” Costas said. “We can tighten all that stuff up without replacing the second amendment.”


Costas found himself in the middle of a debate over America’s gun culture in December when he delivered remarks about gun control during the Sunday Night Football halftime show following a murder-suicide by player Jovan Belcher.

Costas told Stewart that “there is a gun culture and it isn’t good.”

“We’ve changed the culture on a lot of things without changing the laws, no one repealed the first amendment, but we changed people’s attitudes towards racist or homophobic remarks. Cigarettes remain a legal product but attitudes towards them and an understanding of their dangers have taken hold, so the culture has changed. That is what I was talking about.”