Interesting, in the wake of a NFL player caught with a gun in a nightclub, here is another player with a gun.
A Different Giant. A Different Gun. Do You Feel the Same?
A Different Giant. A Different Gun. Do You Feel the Same? - The Fifth Down Blog - NYTimes.com
By ANDREW DAS
December 3, 2008
Did Plaxico Burress know about the robbery of the Giants’ Steve Smith? (Ray Stubblebine/Reuters)
Several news media outlets reported Tuesday that Giants receiver Steve Smith was robbed by a man carrying a gun outside his New Jersey townhouse last week. From the Associated Press:
According to Clifton, N.J., police, second-year receiver Steve Smith was robbed at gunpoint in the early hours of Nov. 25 after arriving home.
Smith had just returned to his townhouse in a chauffer-driven car when he was approached from behind by man who held a gun to Smith’s head, Clifton police Capt. Robert Rowan said.
“He said to him, ‘Give me everything you got,’ and Mr. Smith turned over his jewelry and money and cell phone,” Rowan said Tuesday.
That incident took place three days before his teammate and fellow receiver Plaxico Burress brought a loaded gun to a Manhattan club — and then shot himself in the leg with it.
There is no way to know if Burress knew about what happened to Smith, but every reason to believe that he did. And that raises a few questions.
Did Smith’s robbery make Burress more likely to carry a gun when he left home Friday night? Only he can answer.
Would that be justification for doing so? Well, no, since Burress’s gun was unlicensed.
Is that the type of situation that his lawyer foresaw last year when he pressed city officials about exceptions to the mandatory-sentencing law that could send Burress to jail? Who knows.
But as this Daily News story made clear, Burress is not the only Giant who owns a gun.
“All I will say is in the streets for me, there is no need for it,” running back Brandon Jacobs told the News when asked about carrying a gun. “But if you come in between that door frame of my home, I am going to kill you. Hands down.”
A Different Giant. A Different Gun. Do You Feel the Same? - The Fifth Down Blog - NYTimes.com
By ANDREW DAS
December 3, 2008
Did Plaxico Burress know about the robbery of the Giants’ Steve Smith? (Ray Stubblebine/Reuters)
Several news media outlets reported Tuesday that Giants receiver Steve Smith was robbed by a man carrying a gun outside his New Jersey townhouse last week. From the Associated Press:
According to Clifton, N.J., police, second-year receiver Steve Smith was robbed at gunpoint in the early hours of Nov. 25 after arriving home.
Smith had just returned to his townhouse in a chauffer-driven car when he was approached from behind by man who held a gun to Smith’s head, Clifton police Capt. Robert Rowan said.
“He said to him, ‘Give me everything you got,’ and Mr. Smith turned over his jewelry and money and cell phone,” Rowan said Tuesday.
That incident took place three days before his teammate and fellow receiver Plaxico Burress brought a loaded gun to a Manhattan club — and then shot himself in the leg with it.
There is no way to know if Burress knew about what happened to Smith, but every reason to believe that he did. And that raises a few questions.
Did Smith’s robbery make Burress more likely to carry a gun when he left home Friday night? Only he can answer.
Would that be justification for doing so? Well, no, since Burress’s gun was unlicensed.
Is that the type of situation that his lawyer foresaw last year when he pressed city officials about exceptions to the mandatory-sentencing law that could send Burress to jail? Who knows.
But as this Daily News story made clear, Burress is not the only Giant who owns a gun.
“All I will say is in the streets for me, there is no need for it,” running back Brandon Jacobs told the News when asked about carrying a gun. “But if you come in between that door frame of my home, I am going to kill you. Hands down.”