Football Players Turn in their Guns:
At least seven NFL players have turned their guns into their respective team’s security following the murder-suicide involving Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher earlier this month, Sports Illustrated’s Peter King reported on NBC’s “Football Night in America” on Sunday.
According to the report, at least one player handed over multiple firearms, telling his team’s personnel that he didn’t trust himself with the guns.
So what do we have here? Dumb sheep, or macho brutes who know themselves well enough to know they have zero self-control, even when it comes to murder?
I won’t lie, before I owned guns I didn’t know how I’d handle them. I never asked for a BB gun as a kid because I was concerned I’d end up killing something that didn’t need killing. (I blame bullshit 80s TV where if a BB gun was presented in the opening, a cute animal would be dead, and the protagonists would learn a sad lesson by the closing credits)
The same mentality came with guns. Only now years later I’ve never done anything I regret when it comes to firearms. Maybe I’m just better than the players in the NFL…that’s damning with faint praise….
Also I found this via Joan Peterson, who’s against private transfer of firearms. According to her, turning guns over to private security like this should be a crime, right?
What do you think?
I think a coach said “Turn em in or don’t play.”
Then dumb. Coach says “Turn them in or don’t play” I say “Lucky for me, I don’t have any guns! Oh those guns I had last week…tragic accident while bass fishing, lost them all!”
Echoing a comment I made over at Uncle’s site, I would have loved to see a coach, or the commissioner’s office, tell Brett Favre “turn in your guns or don’t play”.
I suspect the result would have been epic.