Manhattan Strip Clubs: NBA must make example out of Arenas
… I mean, look at the situation,” Harris, who doesn’t own a gun, told the
newspaper. “A lot of guys have been robbed. A couple of guys, God rest their
souls, have passed away. I guess they feel like they need some sort of
protection, I don’t know. I can’t speak for everybody. I’d say between 60 and
75 percent (of players own guns).”
Absent of a change in federal law there isn’t much NBA commissioner David
Stern can do as long as his players who do own guns do it in a legal fashion.
Stern did address the issue back in October of 2006 after Stephen Jackson,
then with the Indiana Pacers, shot his gun in the air outside an Indianapolis
strip club. The commish described it as an “alarming subject” and saying “that
although you’ll read players saying how they feel safer with guns, in fact
those guns actually make them less safe.”