A dose of reality

Carrying gun(s) in a public place without license has been a no-no in the USA for years now. But why does anyone have a need to carry a gun – with or without license, when there is all the possibility of something bad happening when the temper button is pushed? When such is the case, what was going on in Washington Wizards Guard, Gilbert Arenas’s head? For those of you who don’t know the story behind this incident, Arenas was charged of felony for carrying a gun (unloaded) into Verizon Center and pointing it at his teammate, Javaris Crittenton, another Wizards guard, in an attempt to play a joke over gambling debts.

Arenas is a three-time NBA All-star, who makes $111 million a year and is in his second year of six years contract with NBA. Most of us here make about 70K a year on an average and with the bad economy that we are facing, anyone is just happy to have any job at all to keep their lives moving forward. Students keep struggling to get a degree because there is no job waiting for them when they are done with college. So many are purposefully delaying their graduation, so they can still be students and not having to hunt for jobs in this economy. With that being said, do you know how much is $111 million a year for a pay? Compound that with all the perks he would get and all the exposure he gets being with NBA. With so much money on hands, he is attempting to play a joke with his teammate by pointing guns over a gambling debt? It does not fit well with people in this stature.

Moreover, a few days later police searched Javaris’s house in Arlington, VA, for guns and came up empty-handed. Sure they would. A few days not enough for Javaris to hide the guns if he had them? Why would he mess up his career when he saw what was happening to Arenas? Also, police found out (so did we) that Arenas possessed hundreds of gun. What does he do with all those guns? A collection perhaps to make some additional millions?

With this incident, Arenas has lost all credibility, his contract with NBA is terminated and he has to say bye-bye to his $111 million a year job. I am pretty sure he would be filing for bankruptcy in jail for felony. It is like a trailer trash winning a national lottery, blowing it all away and ending poorer than where they were before. Read ‘The winner’ by Baldacci, you will know what I am talking about.