Stop Your Whining!

Stop your whining sportsfans, when did everyone on the planet decide they need to make excuses for the stupidity of some athletes? Plaxico Burress plea bargained his illegal gun sentence down to 2 years today and all I hear from the talking heads at Sportscenter is how wrong this is. Roger Cossack whining about how better served NY would be if they gave Plaxico 1000 hrs of community service to help educate the youth of America. NO!! The education of the youth (and the professional athletes and everyone else) is being done quite well thank you by the exposure of this case.

What Plaxico did was monumentally stupid and could have led to significant injury or even death for an innocent bystander. It did not, therefore he was charged with exactly what he did. The mandatory sentence for his offence is 3.5 years in prison. Plaxico chose to plea it down to 2 years and according to his attorney, he will serve at least 20 months of this sentence.

Why do all these people believe this is wrong? He broke the law. The gun was not registered in NY, he said it was registered in Fl. (it was not, the registration had lapsed). He did not need a gun to go to the club. If you regularly attend clubs that require guns for safety then perhaps either choose a better class of club or make sure your gun is legal. Plaxico did not do either of these things. Therefore, since he broke the law he should go to jail. It’s pretty damn simple and clear to me.

I used to live very close to Manhattan and if I go home to visit family, I will be sure to not bring a gun to any clubs in the city. Why would I choose not to bring a gun you ask: BECAUSE IT IS AGAINST THE LAW! This is also why I choose not request all the money from my local bank, nor do I attempt to enter stores while they are closed. Laws are there to protect us from our stupidity and the stupidity of others.

Plaxico Burress taught many people a valuable lesson today. If you bring a gun into a public place in New York and shoot yourself in the leg….you will go to jail.