Great spokesman for gun control
Plaxico Burress, who shot himself in the leg while trying to catch a dropped gun that he was carrying unlawfully and without a holster, will be appearing with the Brady Center People for redemption.
That’s a great role model there.
June 13th, 2011 at 10:40 am
I would have thought repping for Galco would have been more appropriate…
June 13th, 2011 at 10:45 am
Sorta like Michael Vick doing PSA’s against Dog Fighting. But if one is a “Sports Superstar”, then I guess doing the Jail Time that Ordinary Plebes would have to do is out of the Question, huh?
June 13th, 2011 at 10:50 am
“Clearly, gun laws in this country are too lax. Despite breaking numerous laws, I am still allowed to walk around in public after only two years in prison. Knowing that I would spend 20 years in prison instead of 2 might have made me re-think illegally carrying a gun. Please send me back for another 18 years.”
Unless the presser goes like that, I have no interest in it.
June 13th, 2011 at 10:56 am
Anti-Rights, Pro-Criminal!
June 13th, 2011 at 11:54 am
New York City’s gun laws are what are unlawful; in the sense that they are unconstitutional.
I think that he deserved to be punished for negligence that could have endangered innocent lives but “gun possession” is a constitutionally protected right.
As for his attempt at redemption; we probably don’t want that fool on our side anyway.
June 13th, 2011 at 12:17 pm
Pants on da groun’!
Pants on da groun’!
Lookin’ like a fool wit’ his pants on da groun’!
June 13th, 2011 at 12:43 pm
Looks like all of NY’s “common sense gun control laws” didn’t stop him from breaking the law the first time…SHOCKER!
June 13th, 2011 at 1:38 pm
Hey, you can condemn him for his past misdeeds.
You can condemn him for his association with a known anti-rights group.
But at least wait until he actually says something before condemning him for what he says / will say / will have said.
After all, Michael Vick is back playing for the NFL isn’t he?
June 13th, 2011 at 2:07 pm
Dumbass say what?
June 13th, 2011 at 4:53 pm
Sadly, he should be a reformed spokesman for a gun rights organization. He once had a valid CHP from Florida. He let it expire when he moved to New Jersey to play for the Giants. He could have saved himself several million dollars and two years of his life had he played for the Dolphins, Buccaneers, Jaguars and probably the Cardinals, Panthers, Titans, Cowboys, Texans or Falcons, as well. Equal justice under the law and all…. At least Gilbert Arenas (busted B-baller) was smart enough to move to Orlando from D.C.
June 13th, 2011 at 5:23 pm
Good point, Bat Chain Puller,
Although Plaxico Burriss didn’t follow proper gun safety for carrying, he should’ve been in a free State where he wouldn’t be treated as a slave and jailed for an accident while exercising his RIGHT to keep and carry arms.
June 13th, 2011 at 7:31 pm
@Ron
Yeah, I was particularly disappointed in the “community’s” support of Plaxico during his time of troubles. He was black, rich, ignorant* and naive*; and the 2nd Amendment community ignored him for one of those four reasons. You be the judge.
*ignorant of gun laws and gun safety
*naive about the “immunity” of celebrities in the U.S.
June 13th, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Bat Chain Puller,
If you’re trying to imply that racism had anything to do with it, I’m just going to have to say you’re probably projecting.
Plax was seen as kryptonite by gun owners because of his disregard for the law (regardless of how stupid the law was) and that he was a perfect target to be painted by Antis as an entitled, dumb gun owner who is dangerous to himself and those around him.
June 13th, 2011 at 8:11 pm
Plax-who?? I can’t believe a person was actually named that in this Century – he should be in Rome circa 27AD or something. Anyhow I never heard of him before since I don’t pay any attention to baxitball.
June 13th, 2011 at 8:38 pm
@Trent D.
Yeah, you restated my points almost verbatim.
“kryptonite by gun owners because of his disregard for the law (regardless of how stupid the law was) and that he was a perfect target to be painted by Antis as an entitled, dumb gun owner who is dangerous to himself and those around him.”
lawless..(ignorant or willfully rebellious of the law)
entitled (rich) (naive)
dumb (ignorant)
Yeah, it didn’t have a flippin’ thing to do with his race, I mean if he would have been a Filipina nun who shot herself while going to the soup kitchen in Queens, the response would have been equally as deafening.
“painted by Antis as an entitled, dumb gun owner” now THAT sounds like projection…
June 13th, 2011 at 10:03 pm
The thing his race has to do with it is that of an historic irony that a black man was prosecuted and jailed primarily for carrying a gun…the exact thing that the 1857 SCOTUS Dred Scott decision cited as a reason to continue to keep black people as non-persons and slaves lest they be able to carry weapons wherever they went; something inalienable to a free and independent people.
June 13th, 2011 at 10:14 pm
Didn’t he already make an anti-gun PSA? I mean, wasn’t that him in this video?
June 14th, 2011 at 1:22 pm
Why didn’t his parents just go ahead & name him “Texaco”??
June 14th, 2011 at 1:32 pm
First they came for the moronic Superbowl heroes who wear jogging pants when they go clubbing….but I did not speak out, because I never wear jogging pants when I go clubbing.
June 14th, 2011 at 5:22 pm
I personally feel that people who wear jogging pants (or sweats, or jerseys, etc) while doing anything other than jogging or participating in sports should be shunned if not pilloried in the public square.
Is it that hard to wear big boy clothes when out in public?
I’d have a little more sympathy if he had gone on record as opposing NY and NJ laws as unCon, wrong, and stupid compared to FL prior to breaking them while going out drinking.
Motive matters if you want someone to be hailed as a civil rights poster child.
June 14th, 2011 at 8:08 pm
@Matt
“I’d have a little more sympathy if he had gone on record as opposing NY and NJ laws as unCon, wrong, and stupid compared to FL prior to breaking them while going out drinking.”
sorry, in advance, to be so argumentative; but the local hero Plax was subjected to overzealous prosecution by facist Bloomberg for a victimless crime based on a law of dubious constitutionality with newly added mandatory minimums ; he was robbed of two years of his life and several million dollars but… he would have been “more sympathetic” if he had gone on record against the law(s) prior to his arrest?
I expect you are correct, he would have been a tad more deserving of sympathy had he gone on record, prior. But, Jeebus, I got tons of sympathy, and I don’t like Plaxico, the Giants or dudes who don’t know gun laws or safety provisions and go clubbing in jogging pants.
I just think that his stupidity is not a valid reason for a total quarantine. Remember, Miller was dead, a criminal and unrepresented in 1938 when the Supreme Court irrevocably changed our “rights” for the next century.