the miscarriage is that if he had done this in virtually any other NFL city, he would have gotten off with a much lighter charge, if any. Personally I think that catching a slug in your thigh is more than enough punishment for the stupidity.
Too bad for him he didn’t do it in some horrible, racist state like Tennessee, Texas, Florida, or Georgia and have his case investigated by a good ‘ol boy white Republican sheriff. After being laughed at for the dumb thing he did shooting himself, the worst that would have happened would have been a misdemeanor rap with no jail time, even if he ended up going before a white male jury of NRA Life Members. Of course, such a jury would have probably acquitted him of everything but stupidity.
That's the real irony of it. In most, he still would have been charged for carrying concealed without a permit, but he wouldn't have done any hard time.