Arenas Stored Guns in Locker Room

[GMScud]

Originally Posted by Buster

Sources: Arenas owned several hundred guns - wtop.com


He's finished.

It's weird that he owned so many. Why? I still just don't understand athletes' fascination with guns.

[12thMan]

Originally Posted by GMScud

It's weird that he owned so many. Why? I still just don't understand athletes' fascination with guns.

I think part of is cultural and some of it is imaturity, frankly. It seems like the athletes that get in the most trouble with guns play in big cities like NYC, D.C., Chicaco (Tank Johnson), Miami.

So I think part of it -- a big part of it in my opinion-- is the meshing of the hip-hop culture and it's influence on professional sports, particularly among black athletes. Rappers want to be athletes and athletes want to be rappers and thugs. You have JayZ, for instance, rapping about LeBron James and Dwayne Wade in his latest hit, so it's like this recognition within another sub-culture of society.