This is not necessarily true. Many CCW permit holders would vehemently disagree. 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)...but if you take the course, get the permit, be certified on the use of the gun you're using, then maybe you won't shoot yourself in the leg.
I have to agree with Goodell. He didn´t say not to carry a gun, he said stay out of situations where you think your safety depends on having a gun with you.
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?