Posted on 08/20/2016 8:20:42 AM PDT by rktman
The NFL has added gun ownership conduct and safety to its annual social responsibility training for players.
Per espnW.com's Jane McManus, the NFL "pared down and changed" elements of the social responsibility training and added videos—including showing "a drunken driver swerving a car all over the road"—with players being "asked to discuss" afterward.
The gun conduct portion came about following an offseason in which Denver Broncos cornerback Aqib Talib suffered a gunshot wound to the leg in June and former New Orleans Saints defensive lineman Will Smith was murdered in April.
NFL vice president of social responsibility Anna Isaacson explained to McManus the movement to include gun conduct as part of the training program:
(Excerpt) Read more at bleacherreport.com ...
National Felon League
A lot of members of the National Felons League shouldn’t mess with firearms.
They also have a course in how to bish slap white chicks and not leave marks
Why hasn’t the NBA done this?
After Burress accidentally shot himself with an unregistered gun they probably should have put this in the rookie symposium immediately. It’s all about avoiding bad press, and there’ve been a few incidents.
The list is too long for most of the players to comprehend. Enforcing a short list of drugs, alcohol and beating your wife/gf would solve a lot of their problems.
The NFL made a Social Justice warrior a vice president...
Hey, these mutts shoulda been taught this in high school.
Wonder what is the per capita murder and aggravated assault/battery rate in the NFL. It has to be orders of magnitude above the civilized world.
Good question since probably most of the players are prohibited persons.
If they are trying to teach them things their parents should have taught them that’s not in and of itself a bad thing. But is that what they are doing?
Most of the players can't pass a background check.
Do not hold your gun sideways just because that’s the way it came out of the box.
This is why I haven’t watched a National Felon League game in years and do not miss it one iota.
Wonder if the NFL’S list includes a lesson on BEING A FATHER?
I liked the way you drew a distinction between the NFL and the civilized world.
What’s a “registered” gun?
Let’s look at this much more simply...
These people earn a guaranteed minimum base salary of $450,000. Every one of them is a college graduate.
The fact that such things need to mandated training for half-millionaire college graduates is unspeakably pathetic. They, after FOUR YEARS of college education, should be a foregone conclusion.
Unless everyone starts admitting that football and basketball athletes are, in unthinkably massive numbers, being handed a degree that proves nothing except the ability to throw, kick, or catch a ball.
Until universities are held accountable for graduating people who couldn’t pass even a high school competency exam, and having their accreditation yanked for conferring a degree on a person not passing, pro sports will have to mandate training for such basic tasks.
But then, who would “protect the program”?
Beyond this stupid Gun thing, you have a room full of Multi Millionaire Grown Men sitting in a room being told how to act in a Civil Society?
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