David Stern Meets Frank Lasee

Charlton Heston and Frank Lasee must be livid. Criminals who hang out in strip clubs in the wee hours just got great news: National Basketball Players like Steven Jackson have been asked to keep their firearms at home when going out on the town. David Stern, the commissioner of said hoops league issued that statement today. He indicated that the league's collective bargaining agreement allows players to own firearms but asked that they not be in evidence during team business. My question is this: how does going to a strip club and firing five shots in the air qualify as "team business"?
Stern allows that in these times having a gun at home for protections is OK, but he figures out on the street, packing heat is a no-no. Let me see...where would a guy like Jackson need more protection? At home? At a strip club? At The Palace in Auburn Hills? And another thing...how could anybody hide a gun at a strip club? Can you imagine a lap dancer asking, "Is that a gun in your pocket"? Firing shots in the parking lot seems like a good way to let off "steam" to me. Then, of course, the fracas with the Pistons would have been a lot shorter had someone had the foresight to bring a pistol to the game (though the suspensions might have been served on the rock pile). Hey, here's an idea: we could get L'il Kim and her posse to guard NBA players...she would never see a gun being brandished.
All in all, I think it's much ado about nothing. Barring NBA players from carrying guns is like saying to fathers of 6-yr. old football players that they shouldn't point weapons at coaches who are not playing their sons enough...it's just not realistic. Pretty soon, AT HOME is the only place that there WON'T be firearms. Frank would like that, and it would certainly keep kids from wandering the halls at school.