The saga of Plaxico Burress....oh yea and his glock

Enough is Enough!!!
Alright I'm so fed up with people coming up with these worthless excuses for wide receiver Plaxico Burress. As we all know he "accidentally" shot himself in the leg over the weekend while sitting in the VIP section of the Manhattan club Latin Quarters. Read the previous blog for details....Basically he refused attention from the security guards when they offered to call paramedics, instead he had his teammate Antonio Pierce drive him to the hospital. Upon entrance, Burress told members of the hospital staff that his name was "Harry Smith", and that he was shot at an Applebees Restaurant. After a weekend filled of drama the troubled receiver eventually turned himself in, along with his lawyer on yesterday where he was arraigned and charged with counts of illegal weapon possession.

So whats next?? In 2006, Mayor Bloomberg initiated a law that specifically states that if anyone is caught with possession of an illegal weapon, a mandatory sentence of 3 1/2 years will be served. Now many of you are saying that the crime doesn't fit the punishment..or they are taking this situation way to seriously...Can someone please tell me what makes Burress so different from any other human being. I know that the fact of him being a NFL Superbowl superstar intrigues a lot of you, but think about all of the other people out there who may have committed the same crime and are now serving time for it. Wake up people!! Laws are implemented for particular reasons, not just because. In this case Mayor Bloomberg implemented this law to decease crimes that were being caused by firearms. Many of you want to criticize this particular law when it comes to this story, and then you want to whine about this being an advantage for the city of New York to make and example out of Burress.

Did he not understand the gun laws of New York? Maybe he did, maybe he didn't, but I beg to differ. There is NO excuse, if you carry a weapon then you should know the law. There is no doubt in my mind that the troubled receiver was well aware of the law, not only him but the other teammate as well. Calm down, and just think about it. Why all of the falsified stories on where and how the incident happened? Why did they feel the need to hide the gun? Why did Burress decline the attention of a paramedic, when his life was endanger? Like I said before no excuses, if he felt unsafe going into this particular club without his gun, then he should have found another club to go to. This guy is overrated and is a prime example of another guy being paid millions and millions of dollars in this league not only to act a pure fool, but to also cause ongoing negative attention for a team that he is supposed to be representing.

One thing that really bothers me is that many of these players seem to forget the billions of kids that look up to them, and dream about being just like them when they grow up. People are also failing to realize that as easy as the gun went off and shot him, it could have just as easy did the same to a by stander.

One moment we see him holding a trophy, the next, led away in handcuffs. There are so many people out there who have lost jobs, lost homes, lost retirements, and pretty much everything they've worked for their entire lives. Many are becoming more impatient, not to mention fearing the future. With all of this going on, it amazes me how a man that is blessed with a $35 million contract cant seem to follow gun laws. Now Burress is suspended for the remaining of the year without pay all because of a stupid thoughtless mistake.