Don’t Illegally Shoot Yourself In New York City; Consider Dog Fighting

 

Former New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress began a two-year sentence for gun possession yesterday. Burress accidently shot himself in the thigh with his own handgun last November at a nightclub in New York City. He pled guilty to criminal weapons possession in August. New York’s draconian and unconstitutional gun laws don’t seem to take stupidity as a legal defense. The question is how does Burress’s sentence compare to the one dog hating quarterback Michael Vick served.

Vick spent an eighteen-month jail sentence for his involvement in an illegal dog fighting ring. Not only did Vick host dog fights, he had his own stable of dogs. When a dog couldn’t be trained to fight or was too injured to fight anymore, Vick would dispose of the dog by hanging and other torturous methods. Such evil doesn’t remotely compare to shooting oneself except in New York where Burress could spend twenty-four months in jail. Turning innocent animals into vicious killers and pitting them against each other gets you six months less. And the last time I checked, dog fighting isn’t a guaranteed constitutional right.