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I agree with the Mayor in this case. What’s Burress doing with a loaded, concealed, unregistered weapon? Surely he can afford to hire bodyguards to protect him LEGALLY if he feels the need.

Not to mention, with all his money, he doesn’t even to need to go out clubbin. He could bring the party to his nice, big house and never have to worry about situations like this.

WHAT A DUMBASS, I DONT FEEL SORRY FOR HIM. NOT ONLY DOSE HE HAVE MONEY TO HIRE BODY GUARDS. BUT WHY IN THE HELL DONT THESE STUPID ”FAMIOUS” PEOPLE GET THERE GUN PERMITS WHAT THE F**K…..IF I CAN GET ONE I KNOW THEY HAVE THE MEANS TO GET ON.

WITH ALL THAT MONEY HE MAKES. WHY IN THE HELL WOULD HE BE SO GODDAMN STUPID!!! IT GOES TO SHOW JUST BECAUSE YOU GOT MONEY DON’T MEAN S**T. YOU ARE STILL HUMAN AND YOU DO MAKE MISTAKES. STUPID ONES AT THAT

i think if he shot himself in the foot . that is his business, what does it have to do with the anyone else .

i really wish that sooner or later our heros and role models learn to be just that and stop being so foolish…this was an incident that was never supposed to have happened…so do we tell the future football players thats its okay to be a gangsta on the football field…Where did we loose sight of it all???

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In reply to brownsugar1089:

Maybe you didn’t read the whole story, but, when Burress decided to take a loaded gun in PUBLIC, it became everybody’s business. That’s why we have gun laws.

He accidentally shot himself this time, but that could just as easily have been an employee of the restaurant or any innocent bystander out to enjoy themselves.

I agree with most people on this but i also think celebrity’s should have guns permits them are looked at as main target a quick come up in most eyes but bodyguards can have weapons and not everybody feels safe with bodyguards they only can see so much and do but thats just me.

I agree with Mayor Bloomberg.
Burress needs to be held accountable. He is a role model for our kids. His actions were deplorable and the New York Giants and the Hospital should have called and informed the police. Why did the police have to hear about it via the media. Thank
God for them. Our professional
atheletes need to be more responsible with their actions. I hope and pray that justice prevails and Burress doesn’t go free because of a
high powered attorney.

The law sucks anyway b/c they don’t prosecute killers,x con,and rapest to the fullest but want to prosecute someone for shooting their self is stupid. Hell it could have been worse but it wasn’t. He is human too, it have alot of people carry guns everyday, he paid for it and got papers on it, get over it sensitive azz people. And just b/c he play ball doesn’t mean he is a roll model, it’s a job. When you go to work you not trying to be a role model you going to make that money to provide for your family. So in my opinion he should get a warning or a ticket no jail time.

Who said he was anybody’s hero or role model? there’s nothing more hypocritical than people ranting about how athletes and rich people are no better than normal folks, then turning around and asking them to be role models and heroes just because they’re famous. He’s just a dummy with a lot of money and Steve Smith is the one we should be concerned for. Note: if you don’t know how to use a gun, it’s NOT more safe for you to have one, it’s LESS safe.

I do believe that the only reason a celebrity would be a “role model” for someone’s children is because that PARENT isn’t doing a good enough job to present themselves as a credible role model. Trust me if former NY Governor Eliot Spitzer had committed the his sex for hire crimes in NY I’m quite sure Bloomberg would find just cause to “look the other way” and withhold comment. Remember this is the same Bloomberg that supported the rouge NYPD officers that shot unarmed groom to be RON BELL over 40 times only minutes after his bachelor party. Not Surprising Bloomy…focus on real crime. I’m sure Mr. Burress could do a whole lot more good for the city of NY as a free man than as a tenant of Rikers. If Plexico’s last name was “MANNING” I don’t think we’d see the MAYOR taking such a high profile stance on the crime and punishment side.

I have to agree with mskathy02 and hellovanilla and them other ones is hipocrits they sound real stupids to be adults f**k dat i think everybody should a gun cause if you live where i live everybody is a target anybody is used for a quick come up even junkies are target and the try any thing to bring you down when you doin good even if theres no real reason for you to be locked up i been in predicaments like that

That man is human ..not a hero or role model, especially not for my kids. He did something stupid. How ridiculous he must feel screwing up his career by shooting HIMSELF in the leg by accident. People are trying to blow this out of propotion he does deserve to be fined. Maybe even community service but jail time is ridiculous. I can see if he pulled it out to threaten someone….imagine how stupid he must feel.

You know of course a white man in a power posistion will call a press confrence on prime time t.v. just to announce he would feel outraged if he is not PERSECUTED to the full extent of the law. Who care what you think Bloomberg im sure you were raised that way, and a far as Plax goes he just has to keep his head up and take whatever comes to pass because it will pass and he will move on to a better day. to those players involved they too either will keep it real or do whatever they can to save face i’m sure they all knew he had a weapon and i’m sure that wasn’t the first time. but they need to understand when u have enough money to pay for security then pay for the security! Last but not Least Is Matt Jones (white wide receiver Jacksonville Jags) still playing every sunday after possession of cocane charges and isnt that part of the substance abuse policy in the NFL wow! where was the press conference about that???

This is a mess. This man shot himself, not someone else. he injured himself. Is there any reason why he should be prosecuted?? this is ridiculous…hmmm

the man is an idol out here in the world trying to live a normal life and trying to keep himself from being a target for violence. some guys don’t want an ontourage of people around them all the time. that attracts attention he was having a good time by him self, we he felt he ad to have his gun with him just in case. it slipped down his pants and went off and shot Him in the leg not no one else. So why is he being prosecuted so severely. the NFL need to stand up and not speak for the players, especially when not knowing all the facts. get it together and come up with a better system for our young athletes so they can feel safe when out in the real world.

Its sad they will put anybody in jail now instead of them goin out and arrestin drug dealers and murders they arrestin a man who SHOT HIMSELF why is he in trouble for shootin himself?

guys keep this in mind when u c**k your own gun it will shoot back at you .and i guess it hurts so keep the safe on it

I feel that it is ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS to even CONSIDER any type of prosecution of this man SIMPLY due to the MONEY HE MAKES!!! If a regular JOE BLOW had actually SHOT HIMSELF!? we would be LAUGHING about how STUPID he is but due to the FACT this is a BMWM(black man with MONEY)they(U KNOW WHO U R) Want to STRING HIM UP and hang him out to dry!!!COME ON ACT RIGHT did this statement of VENDICATION really come from a MAYOR that lives in Nigga Your Covered???N Y C= COVERED by the POLICE with bullets that is!!! REALLY get of of it. The flip side of the coin is this ALTHOUGH he SHOT HIMSELF he WAS in a PUBLIC PLACE and the WEAPON WAS NOT SECURED there SHOULD be SOME SORT OF PENALTY for that it is just a BLESSING it was HIM and NOT someone else. SO fine the man or what have you and LET IT GO!!! I am MORE AFRAID of the POLICE there than i am ANY RESIDENT (I may need my wallet for i.d. and try to reach for it while leaving my home for work one morning 2000)!!! PLEASE PLEASE check your RECORD BLOOMBERG and be CAREFUL LORD KNOWS what skeletons are in YOUR CLOSET!

LOL THIS DUDE SHOULD GET DUMMY OF THE YEAR AWARD

Everyone has a valid point, but keep in mind that Plaxico has to be held accountable for his actions. Just because he has money does not mean that he is immune from the laws… By the hand of man, we are wrong if we charge a man with money, we are wrong if we DON’T charge a man with money. We can NOT pick and choose who is held accountable and this is DEFINITELY not a race issue….You do stupid things, bad things will happen to you.

Plaxico is grown and knows what the rules are…EVERYONE knows what the rules are. The shooting incident is one of many incidents just this year!!! You make millions of dollars and you miss a meeting because you have to take your son to school? Tell me that he doesn’t have a driver and at the very least tell me that he can’t make a phone call to let someone know….Sometimes we are not mature enough to handle success and this clearly falls in that category.

I know someone who shot themselves in the Leg… same story… He didn’t go to jail oor get prosecuted by the law… Plexico is just a normal person too..

IIt goes to say anytime a person of color has a protection piece it become an outrage by the other race so we as black people get the book thrown at us and procxuted to the fullist extentt of the law whereas the other race usually gets a slap on the hand.This is why so many of out young people are in this new frorm of SLAVERY ( Jail)What the mayor is doing is another form of slavery. As of today in other states gun sales aree at a all time high even some state are letting as young as 18yrs purchase guns and ammo. In my state your background check is done. Can not verify for the whites but blacks are checked and a waiting period is administered.
The mayor of NY is b usiness as usual as most of the U S A when it come to a person of color.

Gee, I wonder if this would be the same case if Eli Manning shot himself in the leg at a night club?? C’mon lets call this for what it is!!!RACISM!!!Bloomberg…yeah whatever…im not even gonna give credence to what he has to say… A brotha get a little money…I guess this is just one the ways of teaching ppl who voted a certain way a lesson…LoL!! ofcousre the man is somewhat of an idiot… I mean who shoots themselves in the leg and the GETS PROSECUTED?!?!?! Damn good thing he didnt commit suicide…Get him for illegal possession of a firearm, but for shooting himself thats crazy..

bloomburg should get prosecuted for signing that Bill even tho it was voted against, to allow a third term… he did that shyt illegally, f**k him

Damn there are a bunch of haters out here! I’m not saying that he did not some issues, but you all make Plaxico out to be the devil himself.

OK, so he had a gun. What was he doing with it? His team mate was just robbed at gun point!!!! and now he is supposed to be jailed because he shot HIMSELF!!!! The law was not intended for siutations like this. The man has committed no crime against humanity, but some attention seeking prosecutor wants to use TAX payer’s money to jail him? No wonder this country is broke and broken!

This is ludicrous! This society has become anything and everything other than the land of the free!!

How many players in the hall of fame would be there is they lived under this absurdity? This is sick.

when i read this i counld stop laughin .. this stuff is as funny as it gets… oh boy… bloomberg go and f**k urself u rich b***h… but seriously guns should be banned all together from all of u.s ..but whose putting them out there ..people like bloomberg..so cattel tells pot its black…lol…

For everyone that seems surprised and shocked that Bloomberg and others want to lock him up, dont be! This country has been racist from day one so dont be so surprised. If police can shoot innocent black men 40 times and be acquitted for it then dont be surprised. The racist Pigs cant help themselves! They love to persecute, blame, and point fingers at others when they themselves are the worst criminals on the face of the planet! These filthy Pigs have used guns to murder, war, slaughter, and committ genocide for hundreds of yrs. They love the gun and the gun is the tool they used to hijack, rob, and steal this country away from its original inhabitants. Plaxico is just another black man that they will try to use as their hanging boy! Just like blacks were lynched in the late 1800′s and 1900′s they still try it today, just in a different way. Plaxico doesnt have a criminal record and he isnt a threat to society so he should be given probation, counseling, and made to serve the community in some form or fashion.

hey man my name is ray. i agree to what u guys posted on the comment section about burress and i am a big burress fan. i though it was mad funny that they were quick to throw plax in jail. i said the same thing u said about the cops getting aquitted for murdering an innocint man by shooting him to death 40 times. you didnt see bloomberg on the conviction banwagon when that s**t happen did you?? lol lol. it just to show that they are quick to throw blacks and hispanics in jail for stupid s**t while white people get away with murder by stealing money, breaking SEC and fedreal laws. can u say martha stewart??sorry for throwing the race card in there but hey its sad but true. anyway bloomberg shouldn’t talk about special treatment. he’s the one that changed NYC law to run a third term for mayor just so he can run for mayor and he has the nerv to talk about not giving burress special treatment? GO F**K UR SELF BLOOM-HEAD.weather was burress was right or wrong I HOPE THAT PLAX GETS AWAY WITH THIS ONE SO MUCH SO I CAN LAUGH AT THE HATERS WHO WANTED TO SEE PLAX GO DOWN AND BE THROWN IN JAIL!!! AND T ALL GIANTS FANS WHO NOW HATE PLAX, GO F**K UR SELFS TOO. anyway hit me up and tell me what you think. I BELEIVE IN YOU PLAXICO BURRESS!!!!!

Bloomberg was more concerned that he’s not catching TDs anymore. If we ain’t runnin’, jumpin’, catchin’ and smilin’ …there’s no cause for amnesty.

This is a hard one – is he not allowed to have a gun or is it not registered to him? It’s bad enough he shot himself – at least he didn’t shoot anyone else and hopefully he’ll recover fully and be able to play ball!

first of all Bloomberg is quick to judge where was Bloomberg when those cops got off for shooting a Black Man on his Wedding Day because Plaxico had a Gun with him for PROTECTION is that a crime alot of high profile people carry a gun is that a crime HELL TO THE F**KIN NO Bloomberg needs to get his head out from between his legs and look at this again Plaxico i hope you recover soon sweetie from your injuries very soon

I agree with one other writer. It was a bonehead thing Buress did but He isnt a threat to soceity… Hand cuffs for shooting yourself?? WHere’s he going to run??? So why act like this is such a brutal crime Mr Bloomberg??? bonehead move.. “yes”. community service for the gun “yes” but jail; come on!!!

I think Mayor Bloomberg should probably just shut his damn mouth and let the process work without political influence. There’s enough profile to this, already. Honestly, I think he was punished enough when he SHOT HIMSELF IN THE THIGH!!!! And he’s most likely going to face a long-term suspension from the NFL, like Adam Jones or Tank Williams. Then again, if he was an ordinary guy who drove the MTA bus or something instead of a star athlete, and got caught carrying a loaded firearm into a nightclub without a permit, his ass would already be up North and that would be that. Everyone reading this knows that.

But overall, just like Michael Vick and Adam Jones and Tank Williams and all these other athletes and entertainers getting busted for this stupid s**t…how f**kin stupid can you be? You’re rich. Hire security that has permits and knows how to handle guns. Go get firearms classes and a concealed carry license. You have plenty of money to do so. I know truck drivers who have their permits, so how hard can it be for a multi-million dollar athlete to get one?