Let's not make another generalization in an attempt to disprove one.
There are nearly 3000 NFL players active in the league, an overwhelmingly large percentage of them are hard working upstanding people just like any other profession.
I disagree. I would say they have more problems than the general population. Find a town of 3000. How many murder suicides, how many arrests for organized dog fighting, how many arrests for gun fights at bars?
The NFL has a disproportionate number of thugs over the general population. The NBA is no better. Much of that comes from star athletes being catered to for far too long.
Even if you had that you would still have the problem of what Jason Whitlock
wrote about and what I agree with. And that is a gun culture in this country. It
demonstrates itself in different ways. It demonstrates itself in the Wild West,
Dirty Harry mentality of people who actually believe that if a number of people
were armed in the theater in Aurora, they would have been able to take down this
nut job in body armor and military style artillery. When in fact almost every
policeman in the country would tell that you that would have only increased the
tragedy and added to the carnage.
Stricter gun laws will convince "inner city teenage kids" to not break the law. Check.It also plays itself out, and Jason Whitlock had some insight into this. It
plays itself out in the inner cities where teenage kids are somehow armed to the
hilt. And it plays itself out, and this I know the whys and wherefores of, in
the sports world, where young athletes are disproportionately armed.
Guns make professional athletes kill people at a higher rate than guns make the general public kill people. Check.Even if all those guns were obtained legally, you can't have 65 guys in their 20s and 30s, aggressive young men, subject to impulses without something bad happening.
We need to outlaw gun ownership for professional athletes. Check.But give me one example of a professional athlete who by virtue of his having a gun took a dangerous situation and turned it around for the better. I can't think of a single one. But sadly, I can think of dozens whereby virtue of having a gun, a professional athlete wound up in a tragic situation.
Hence why I'm not a fan of the NFL...college football is much better
I disagree. I would say they have more problems than the general population. Find a town of 3000. How many murder suicides, how many arrests for organized dog fighting, how many arrests for gun fights at bars?
The NFL has a disproportionate number of thugs over the general population. The NBA is no better. Much of that comes from star athletes being catered to for far too long.
Halftime, anybody else hear this BULL****?