Goodell wants players to avoid unsafe situations

Yahoo Sports ^ | 12/9/08 | Jenna Fryer

[Upstate NY Guy]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP)—NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has a simple mantra when it comes to players feeling the need to carry a gun: Avoid those situations.

“The real issue to me, is when the players feel they’re unsafe, they shouldn’t be there,” Goodell said. “So get out, don’t be there. If you feel the need to have a firearm to be someplace, you’re in the wrong place.”

Burress was injured in the early morning hours of Nov. 29 when a .40-caliber Glock he was carrying in his waistband slipped down his leg, and as he grabbed at it, he accidentally pulled the trigger and shot himself in the thigh.

[basil]

Ask Susannah Hupp about going for lunch in a Luby's cafeteria after church on a warm sunny day in small town TX.

I carry everywhere I go.

[neb52]

Dawn, your are assuming he is speaking about responsible law abiding CCW permit holders. Most of these incidents are results of players who think and act like they are gangsters. They go and hang around other gangster types. The gun is more for showing your tough then being a responsible citizen.

A typical CCW permit holder is not going to go into strip clubs beating up strippers and shooting other patrons, going to hip hop clubs and getting in the faces of other patrons or beating up on their team provided security guard at the typical hip hop club.

Mr. Goodall is essentially saying to stop acting like a thug, especially if you are going to be caring a firearm.

[frithguild]

If an NFL player wants to carry, no problem w/me, just do it legally (of course in a state like New York it's harder than most places to get a CCW permit)

Isn't this really the point. Where concealed carry is illegal, you get stupidity in skirting the law. Like putting a chamberd Glock in your waisteband like Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop. Nobody teaches you waht to do. If concealed carry were legal, you would be doing it with a sense of style - Like a nice holster beneath your jacket. Concealed carry becomes s social thing, and everybody educates each other in a culture of safety. New York, with the ilk of Bloomberg at the head, where handguns could not be more illegal, is as dangerous a place as can be and full of idiots.

As far as what Goddel says - well, what country should we go to where you can be in the greatest safety from threats both criminal and governmental?

[Niteranger68]

Ask Susannah Hupp about going for lunch in a Luby's cafeteria after church on a warm sunny day in small town TX.

"How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual... as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of." - Suzanna Gratia Hupp

[basil]

Susanna is my hero—and my friend! Would that there were more like her being elected to public office across this once great land.

[Hatteras]

"The real issue to me, is when the players feel they’re unsafe, they shouldn’t be there,” Goodell said. “So get out, don’t be there. If you feel the need to have a firearm to be someplace, you’re in the wrong place."

You mean like running a crossing pattern in front of Troy Polamalu?

[Charles Henrickson]

We told our teenagers: "Nothing good can happen after midnight." A common-sense rule, with few exceptions.

Young single men + lots of money + lots of testosterone - moral upbringing = TROUBLE waiting to happen

[Citizen Blade]

We told our teenagers: "Nothing good can happen after midnight." A common-sense rule, with few exceptions.

I tend to disagree- being out after midnight is like any other activity in life. It's just a question of what you are doing and who you are doing it with. There is a big difference between being at a ghetto club at 1:00 am and having a couple of martinis at the bar at the Ritz.

Frankly, if I was a rich sports star, you wouldn't find me hanging out at a ghetto club where I felt the need to have a handgun with me to feel safe. It seems like a lot of these guys get rich, but can't ditch the dangerous lifestlye and useless hangers on.