In 2005 Taylor got in trouble w/ the law for brandishing a firearm at some people who were trying to steal a couple ATVs from him.
According to FReeper therut, the NFL bosses ban firearms from their players, threatening them with fines and firing and such if they owned them.
Perhaps as Sean tried to stay out of trouble, he complied with the banning of firearms. Post #159 on the main Sean Taylor thread from a couple days ago stated:
‘Sharpstein said Taylor was sleeping when he heard a noise in the living room. The intruders were at his bedroom and Taylor reached for a machete or other form of knife he keeps nearby in case of emergency, and two shots were fired, with one striking his leg.’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930613/posts
The NFL doesn’t want players running around with guns for obvious reasons. But inside your household, there is nothing the NBA can do. Plus, we already knew he owned at least one gun.
Either way, the guy just refused to move out of the hood and give up the gangster stuff and it ended up costing him his life. At what point do we just have to say, this is self-inflicted. If he really had decided to ‘turn the corner’ in the last few months as many are reporting, its a shame and its too bad he didn’t decided to get his girl and his kid into someplace decent during the season.
Some other Freeper astutely pointed out that the comments by this Sharpstein character are completely bizarre. He was Taylor’s lawyer a while back and may still have maintained some kind of contact with him later, but these comments were about details of the case that he should have known absolutely nothing about.