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.
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.