Real Sport's with Bryant Gumbel is a show about all kinds of sport story's that deal with real world problems such as gun control. The last episode I saw a story of an Ex NFL player who now owns his own gun store. The reporter that talked to him asked him if he ever sell any guns to any of his friends in the NFL and he said yes. When the reporter asked him the ex NFL player said it as if it was a normal to sell guns to NFL players. Then the reporter ask why would any NFL player want or even need a gun. The player said that it was just instinct because of where people came from. another reason was because of what happened to Washington Redskins Sean Taylor last year. He was asleep in his home and someone broke in, then he had a machete and the other guy had a gun and he killed him. Even before that, there were two players killed from the Denver Broncos in drive by's. The Ex NFL player said those were mostly the reasons why a lot of players wanted to by guns for themselves. When I watched this I thought to myself and I said to my brother that I could see why they would get one but I still had a bad feeling that something like what happened to Plaxico Burress could happened to anyone. I also thought that something that what happened to Sean Taylor could happen to anyone. So I understand why players would get a gun instead of having a machete or nothing at all.
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There are many reasons why pro athletes, not just NFL players, would need a gun. However, guns only cause trouble. In Pac-Man Jones' case, his bodyguards just get a little too trigger happy. One way to avoid Sean Taylor would be to make guns illegal all around. However, a bill like that would have to be passed on a state level because Congress could never pass a bill like that to get rid of another amendment. There are people out there who are so jealous of what pro athletes have that they want them dead. I know, sad, but also you have to take into account the backgrounds of the players who get into trouble and where they are when they get into trouble. Most, not all, are in very shady places like strip-clubs and dealing with bad people. In Jones' case, it was his own stupidity that had two of his bodyguards killed.
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