Mike Lupica on Plaxico Post Shooting Attitude
Plaxico Burress still acts like somebody else shot him. So it is a good thing you don't have to do any time for missing the point, the way you do real time for shooting yourself in the leg with a Glock .40 you are not licensed to carry in the city of New York, or anywhere else on the night of Nov. 28, 2008. He still needs to stop acting as if he's just one more victim of guns in America. Burress has a right to be angry about what happened to him, about having to go to jail for an accident that follows a dumb mistake: Taking the Glock with him for this night of fun: Dinner at an Applebee's in Jersey, then to a strip club called HeadQuarters, finally to the Latin Quarter on Lexington Ave. where the gun went off. Plax, on the street of dreams! The gun, as everybody knows by now.... MORE