Let's recount the facts.

Married NFL quarterback carries on an affair with a honey nearly half his age.

Honey shoots and kills married NFL quarterback.

The obvious cause that needs to be addressed by government? GUNS, not infidelity!

He came from the Friday night lights of John Brewer Field to being the kind of football star and sports celebrity he became in Nashville. Now he dies in a Nashville condominium with a 20-year-old woman not his wife, multiple gunshot wounds, one to the head, the young woman dead there next to him.

The gun was found next to the woman, Sahel Kazemi. Where did the gun come from? Where it always comes from: Somewhere.

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Even after he stopped playing he was a big guy in Nashville. This weekend he was famous again, this time as a crime statistic, homicide victim, dead by gun.

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According to the The Tennessean newspaper, McNair had a permit to carry a handgun. The weapon found next to the bodies was a semiautomatic.

There were so many wonderful statistics attached to McNair's career, the most important being the one Super Bowl, the four Pro Bowls to which he was selected, all the games he won. But the last was the only one that mattered. He is the 36th homicide victim in Nashville this year. That is down from 41 at the same time last year.

Only in a country of gun lovers is that considered progress.

Sportswriter Mike Lupica ignores the infidelity and leaps to guns as the problem. If reports are accurate, McNair was two weeks from a divorce and his killer expected to marry him shortly thereafter. My guess is that he kicked her to the curb or told her the terms of a pre-nup and she went off. Lesson? Don't screw around on your wife and string on your mistress with hints of marriage.

Interestingly enough, Lupica also recounts the death of the sister of the tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams. He ignores, of course, the sister was hanging out in a crime and drug infested neighborhood know for its gang activity, with a boyfriend/fiance who had a long criminal record and was held on parole violations after the shooting. Oh, yeah -- and that the individuals who killed her were felons who already were banned from possessing the guns which they used to kill her after an argument. No change in the law related to guns would have prevented the murder.

Lupica, of course, waxes eloquent about what a great athlete McNair was and how sad his death is. I'll concede that -- but still find that to be a terrible reason to restrict the Constitutional rights of Americans. If that makes me a fanatical member of the gun culture, so be it.

H/T Hot Air