(or we're changing our name once and for all from the NY to the NJ Giants!)
Posted on 12/04/2008 5:34:20 AM PST by St. Louis Conservative
New York Giants star receiver Plaxico Burress is facing a mandatory 3½ years in prison and the end of his football career. His crime? Not having a license, which New York City never would have issued him, for the exercise of his constitutional right to bear arms.
Plaxico Burress is led to his arraignment in Manhattan. To be sure, Mr. Burress got caught because of what appears to have been stupid and irresponsible behavior connected with the handgun. But he does not face prison for shooting himself. His impending mandatory sentence highlights the unfairness and unconstitutionality of New York City's draconian gun laws.
Mr. Burress had previously had a handgun carry permit issued by Florida, for which he was required to pass a fingerprint-based background check. As a player for the Giants, he moved to Totowa, N.J., where he kept a Glock pistol. And last Friday night, he reportedly went to the Latin Quarter nightclub in midtown Manhattan carrying the loaded gun in his sweatpants. Because New York state permits to possess or carry handguns are not issued to nonresidents, Mr. Burress could not apply for a New York City permit.
At the nightclub, the handgun accidentally discharged, shooting Mr. Burress in the right thigh. He was not seriously injured, but he has been charged with criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree.
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He carried it in his sweatpants? What’s the best-case scenario, sweat pants with pockets? Or was he stupid enough to carry a Glock tucked into the waistband of a pair of drawstring sweatpants?
But, of course, it was a Glock! Glocks have three safeties: the trigger safety, the firing pin safety, and the drop safety. The safeties are redundant, said to keep a Glock from discharging at any time unless the shooter pulls the trigger straight back. So OF COURSE he felt safe to put it in his sweatpants; even if it fell and hit the ground it couldn’t accidentally fire.
Then, the handgun “accidentally” discharged. Wouldn’t that suggest he had a round in the chamber, or did the slide “accidentally” rack itself?
All of which means, he had a round chambered AND somebody pulled the trigger straight back. Stupidity may be a better descriptor of this event than an accident.
If you want a GLock in your pocket, USE A POCKET HOLSTER to keep foreign objects or fingers out of the trigger guard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or PB could’ve hired a guy licensed to carry. I don’t like NYS’s loony gun laws, either, but he still broke at least one. And so did the idiots who aided and abetted.
I guess someone could accidentally pull the trigger? There's something we're not being told.
Well, it's pretty much a slam dunk that Porcupine was had his Glock crammed in his waistband without a holster because, well, it's just cooler that way. Glocks typically have a 5 - 6 lb. DAO trigger that (IMO) does not suffer fools well. Polydent is a world-class fool. He therefore stuck his boogerhook on the bang switch and added to his God-given hole inventory.
Former Buffalo Bill’s wide receiver Peerless Price was named after the faucet. His mother saw it on a truck and liked it.
If they wont drop the charges, Plax's lawyers should aggressively pursue jury nullification in court.
The second amendment isn't absolute. The word, by the way, is "unalienable", not "inalienable". You do not determine what the constitution means (thank god).
Plaxifool has proven that he is not to be trusted with a gun.
Sure, but the major charge which will put him in prison is possession without a permit.
So you don't think we have a right to defend ourselves.
(or we're changing our name once and for all from the NY to the NJ Giants!)
That's an easy one.
New York City ain't America, pal.
More is coming out this morning about the doctor that treated Burress and was suspended.
Apparently, Pierce called the trainer and the trainer told him which hospital to go to. The trainer may have arranged the doctor to go to the hospital to treat Burress. The doctor treated Burress under a fake name and did NOT report the gunshot wound as required.
NY’s gun laws suck. I had to jump through hoops in order to get a target/premise one. But there are laws and he broke them. Ignorance is no excuse.
Constitutionally, I believe we have a right to protect ourselves from government. Hence "A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State". You can not cherry pick the Constitution.
I agree.
It's already out. His buddy took the gun home too. It was supposed to just go away because he catches footballs occasionally.
Who ever hear of Clarence Earl Gideon?
Gideon v. Wainwright changed U.S jurisprudence forever
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