Former Golden State Warrior + Current Washington Bullet Gilbert Arenas Pleads Guilty to Felony

…its the only way we get sports stars to think about how truly lucky and fortunate they are to be paid that amount of money to do something they love…

I’m pretty sure all professional athletes worked very hard during the course of their life to get to where they are, it has nothing to do with luck and being fortunate, it has to do with dedication to perfect what you love to do.

But as I said before, I wont argue your points regarding his judgement, but I also believe in second chances.

Look at what other people in the NFL and NBA have done that did not get them jail-time or suspensions as severe as Arenas. Arenas brought unloaded guns in a locker room…. stupid yes…. dangerous….not really.
Stephen Jackson attacked people and actually shot a loaded gun and all he got was a 7 game suspension. Ruben Patterson forced his childs babysitter to give him oral sex, yet that wasn’t as big as this. Pacman Jones left a man paralyzed yet he played in the NFL after this. Kobe Bryant raped a woman.
The point is, no matter how much people try to look good, and stand up against problems, they simply don’t care! They pick and choose to what offends them. People don’t care that in Africa, people are being killed everyday by evil, evil malitias. But they care so much that a guy brings an UNLOADED gun in a locker room. I’m sick of America’s obsession with guns as well as most of you. But didn’t Delonte West have loaded shotguns in the back of his truck a couple months ago, yet you don’t bring that up at all. You simply don’t care, and admitting that will set you free.

because the state of Virginia (Arenas’ residence) doesn’t require them! one of the linked articles has a fuller description of his extensive accumulation of firearms, which undermines his excuse that he wanted to take the four handguns away from where his kids were (what he needed were gun safes with the ammo and magazines locked up completely separately from the fire arms).

And yes, i would be much more concerned with someone who shoots guns, sexually assaults women, and drunk drivers.
And how did any of you who are angry about Arenas not even mention the terrible acts of Chris Henry. He beat his wife up, chased her down, and un-tragically died after falling out of the truck. Arenas didn’t and wasn’t going to harm anyone, while Ruben Patterson and Stephen Jackson types have actually caused irreconciable harm to other human beings. Just admit, you honestly don’t care about issues like this. You just pick and choose what you want to listen to.

“Now….before I start….I would just like to demonstrate that this is an unloaded gun …see…I am working the action…making sure the chambre is clear….and there are no rounds in the clip…….Now….. I am going to point it at you….. you know it is unloaded….. but it will be funny I promise….because you dont know if it is loaded or not….oh…..wait…hang on….damn….Kinda poinless now isnt it, if you know its empty……that’s not even vaguely funny….”

I.E. the point of the gag is to make someone crap their pants….. otherwise there is no gag!?! Still think it’s harmless? trust me….. when someone points a gun at YOU…you are going to be very hard pressed to control your sphincter…..especially if your stupid enough to assume it is not loaded!

The golden rule of any formal firearms training, no matter which country you are in…is that you NEVER point a gun at someone, unless you are prepared to use it…. so therefore the point of him having the guns at the Arena was firstly to play a gag on a teammate… then suddenly after legal advice, it was to store the guns safely away from his children who might have found them…… righhhhhhhhhhhhtttttttttttt………..

But hey..they were only empty…so surely its cool for his kids to play with empty guns isn’t it Hawk?

I know mate…it was said slightly tongue in cheek, but a former colleague did tell me of a tale from GW1 where he unloaded a clip into a guy (sand jam on his rifle hence need to revert to the hi-power) and yet he kept coming for a while…not good. But yes I agree it has been a very reliable beast for many generations. I was just trained with my beloved SLR and a nice beefy 7.62 round which pretty much stopped anything in its tracks and so I came from the school of ‘big hole = good’ :)

The caliber is bigger.

someone scares the crap out of me. Does that mean they should go to jail for 6 months and void their 90mil contract?

The punishment does not fit the crime.