Posted on 06/15/2011 6:15:23 AM PDT by rellimpank
NFL wide receiver Plaxico Burress just finished twenty months in prison for carrying a firearm. New York prosecutors said that the gun was unlicensed. The Constitution begs to differ.
One might think that this injustice would spark the former Steeler and Giant to lay down $1,000 for a National Rifle Association lifetime membership. Instead, after losing the bulk of a $35 million contract, endorsement deals, and nearly two years of his life behind bars, Burress, perversely, has joined forces with the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
Burress announced Monday that he will speak about the perils of gun ownership to audiences across the country. "If I can just help a child to think about the decision of carrying a firearm or not to carry one out of the home, he or she may save lives," the former all-pro wide receiver remarked. "You can make a mistake and you can be a better person from it and along the way bring people with you."
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Simple. He’s a criminal who can’t legally carry a gun. He doesn’t anyone to have superior fire power.
The guy carries a loaded gun, in his sweat pants, no holster, and shoots himself in the leg. Now he is a supporter of gun control laws.
I must say the man is in good company with Brady.
This is not about what Plaxico thinks about guns or the Second Amendment. This is about trying to convince the NFL owners and Roger Goodell that he’s a changed man and is ready to play.
Methinks it’s because, deep down, he believes owning guns is and should be illegal. Despite handgun ownership being LEGAL in NY with a little paperwork (he sure has the funds to have a lawyer work thru the worst that even NYC would put him thru for one), and despite knowing unlicensed ownership in NY being a serious crime, he obtained and carried the weapon thru illegal means and in continuing violation of the law. Upon being caught and charged, he pled guilty (or mounted an inept defense) because he assumed he was. It never crossed his mind that being armed in defense of self, family, etc. is an INALIENABLE RIGHT for which he should, with his huge income, hire the best lawyers to defend (and even benefit state residents by overturning the oppressive prohibitions). Duly punished for what HE believed a crime, he indulges his remorse by promoting the notion that what he did was a crime.
Nobody ever cornered him and explained “you did nothing wrong, in fact what you did is explicitly protected in the federal Constitution and reflected as a civil right in state law; now get off your sorry *** and put some of that money to use to defend your rights and relieve the state’s residents!”
He did not see himself as an upstanding citizen exercising a right to defend life.
He saw himself as a bada$$ indulging the visceral excitement of a life of crime and money.
When caught, he acted according to his beliefs.
Yep. There are tens of millions of dollars at stake. He’s absolutely doing the right thing for his future.
They could start a nice expansion team with ex-cons of the NFL.
And the sports leagues are increasingly about liberal, PC groupthink.
“They could start a nice expansion team with ex-cons of the NFL”
Then who would be left to play????
VERY well stated: he thought he was being a badass rather than being a conscientious exerciser of his 2A rights.
Colonel, USAFR
Bingo. While he played for the Giants, Plaxico praised God during interviews, while visiting strip clubs and drinking later in the day. Nothing new here.
You got that right! Sports writers are some of the most obnoxiously liberal 'journolists' out there. They wear their PC bias like a badge of honor.
My problem with the premise of this article is that Burris is assumed to be a free man who was wronged by the bad laws of NY. This move just shows that his democrat masters have put him back on the plantation and will reward him handsomely for efforts to enslave others.
Yep, the gun laws of NY are unconstitutional, but they are there to insure that there are only subjects not citizens in these Leftard Provinces.
Wouldn’t he be better served to tour around to schools and tell school kids not to be stupid by carrying an unholstered gun in your pants. you might shoot your leg off.
And this is the great failing of our side: so paranoid about putting together and winning perfect cases, we fail to realize that criminals, bada$$es, and idiots will get to the courts first en masse and acquire rulings which make it ever harder to piece together the perfect case.
Can they start one with players who have essentially been convicted of “criminally exercising their constitutional rights”?
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