Plaxico Burress–best known for breaking the hearts of Pats fans and shooting himself in the leg–pled guilty to a weapons charge today and will serve two years in jail.  Burress pled to a lesser charge than those with which he was originally saddled,  agreeing to plead guilty to one count of criminal posession of a weapon.  His original charges, two counts of criminal posession of a weapon and one of reckless endangerment, would have come with a minimum 3.5 year sentence if he had been convicted at trial.

Burress will serve two years in prison and have two years of supervised release.  Nobody else, including Antonio Pierce, who was there and drove Burress to the hospital along with delivering the gun to him, the hospital staff who didn’t inform the authorities Burress had been shot, etc., was indicted.

Burress is talented and will likely live to play again–another disciplinary action for Roger Goodell!  As far as we’re concerned, shooting himself in the thigh is probably pretty painful…and clearly accidental.  Dangerous to have a loaded gun in a nightclub? Yes. Silly not to reregister the gun when Burress moved and his permit expired? Clearly.  But in our mind, community service irresponsible, not serious jailtime irresponsible.  This is entirely ridiculous.

That bed Burress is taking up–not to mention the taxpayer dollars–could go toward punitive housing for someone who actually hurt or negatively affected the life of someone other than himself.  Stallworth (whose done a good job of owning up to his crime, don’t get us wrong) got 26 DAYS for a drunk driving incident that KILLED SOMEONE.  A little consistentcy, please!

That’s our take, and we’re sticking to it.

(Actually, we just agree with this nugget o’ wisdom…)

shawnemerriman:  Forget the gun…forget shooting yourself…you had on sweat pants in the CLUB man thats tough