This smacks of racism....arresting Plaxico Burress for exercising his 2nd ammendment rights? Didn’t Democrats create anti-firearm possession laws to prevent blacks from possessing firearms?
He wins the Super Bowl, a few months later shoots himself and is now doing two years! The highs and the lows!
Yes, that was the way in much of the Old South, but as I understand it, in places like New York, it was done to keep the guns out of the hands of any who opposed outfits like Boss Tweed and his Tammany Hall bunch.
We can't arm the peasants, you know. It might give them silly, dangerous ideas, like liberty...equality...self-empowerment.