And so ends Plaxico Burress's Career

are nearly-fascist in their desperation to impose their ideaology of political righteousness and will relentlessly exploit every opportunity to disseminate their especially noxious version of “truthiness”.

What a surprise that one of BTSC’s most obnoxious and cynical and opportunistic posters is also a self-professed “bleeding-heart liberal”.

Just shows to go ya, i guess…..

/football sans politics

Per the state. I wasn’t implying he can’t carry the gun, just trying to explain why the city’s laws are as harsh as they are.

how distorted some people’s perspectives can be on a given topic.

 I’m an avowed supporter of gun-rights and ownership. I think every American has a lega right AND responsibility to keep and bear arms. But rights always go hand-in-hand with responsibilities.

 Burress, as a high-profile figure, NEVER embraced the responsibilities of fame, or of financial success. Or even of adulthood. As a Steeler he regurlarly made immature, childish decisions and used nonsensical excuses for his failure to abide by team rules and guidelines. His priority was always excercizing his “rights” without ever abiding by his responsibilities. He’s a perfect example of a generation of Americans who want freedoms but don’t want to have to surrender anything for them.

 As a result of his “do what i WANT to!” attitude, the Steelers released, despite Ben’s request that he be resigned. The Pittsburgh FO saw what was coming: a meltdown by gifted athlete who was more child than man. Thankfully, he was only injured in that meltdown, but it could have been much, much worse.

 Burress does NOT represent a good example of a gun-owner. He is not responsible. He obviously had ZERO knowledge of the nature or functionality of the weapon he chose to carry so casually. By stuffing a Glock into his waistband he showed himself to be immature, foolish, childish, arrogant, careless and flat-out dangerous.

 A Glock is a combat handgun. It is a double-stacked magazine-fed semi-automatic firearm with no active safety mechanism and only a passive trigger safety to prevent unintended firing. It is a tool meant for professional and trained use ONLY. NOT for toting into a bar to impress gullible drunk chics. Without an active, locking safety mechanism the Glock will fire every time the trigger is depressed past a certain threshold. That makes it completely inappropriate for “waistband/sweatpants” carry.

 Additionally- Burress must have intentionally, manually locked and loaded a round into the chamber of the weapon for it to have fired “accidentally” as it did. When a magazine is loaded into an empty Glock, no round will cycle into the barrell chamber unless done so manually by the firearm’s operator. So- Plaxico MUST have known the weapon was not only “loaded” but “locked AND loaded”.

 Finally, carrying a combat handgun locked-and-loaded in the waistband of sweatpants is something only a total moron would do. The Glock, when loaded, weighs a few pounds and is highly unlikely to stay put in your waistband without some sort of holster mechanism. A multi-millionaire like Burress surely could have afforded an IWB holster if he absolutely HAD to carry a locked-and-loaded combat firearm into a bar.

 One wrong move could’ve put that bullet thru the heart of someone’’s daughter, son, sister, brother. And for what? So some immature brat wanted to play tough-guy?

 The NFL offers, FREE to ALL players, trained and armed security professionals. Burres had zero excuse in saying he “needed protection”.

 Finally- Plaxico, and Pierce, lied, denied and tried to hide the whole episode from everyone until they were FORCED to admit everything, under threat of arrest. Not the actions of a responsible adult by a long, long shot.

 This is not some isolated episode of “bad luck” for Plaxico Buress. This was the result of a lifetime attitude of “I’ll do what I want. FTW!”

 Only, it wasn’t the world that got f*cked, was it?

was, i believe, the original offer on the guilty plea