Gilbert Got a Gun

It is getting way out of control with athletes and their guns. Guns and athletes seem like it doesn't mix like oil and water. Just last year we watched a player named Plaxico Buress shoot himself in a night club and ended up in prison and not to mention the Tennessee Volunteers' players using a fake gun to rob some people at a local gas station.
Gilbert Arenas brought guns to his place of work at the Verizon Center where league officials and the commissioner clearly stated that they do not want guns near their facilities. First he said he brought the guns to the stadium to turn them into to the proper authorities because he has children and don't want them exposed to that and then we hear of him pulling these guns out on fellow teammate Javaris Crittenton.
It is said that Wizards' guards Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton were playing a game of cards on a team flight back to Washington and it escalated into a heated exchange between the two guards and went on for two more days. Javaris said on the flight back that if Gilbert didn't pay up on the bet he would shoot him in his surgically repaired knee and Gilbert tried to turn it into a joke. Arenas then took the guns he brought to turn into authorities and put them in Crittenton's locker stall and jokingly asked him to pick a gun to shoot him with. At that time Javaris pulled out his own gun to show that he had his gun to shoot Arenas with.
Arenas met with federal prosecutors at the United States Attorney's Office for the district of Columbia and detectives of the Metropolitan Police Department for over two hours, but still no further actions were taken. NBA Commissioner David Stern has not yet released a statement or even handed down a punishment yet and probably won't until the legal investigation is over. It is more likely that Gilbert will be suspended for blatantly breaking a league rule.
I understand that players need protection and some fear for their lives, but why have a gun in a place that your job told you not to bring one to. Players are more likely to be robbed because of their big contracts, flashy cars and jewelry and should also be allowed to protect themselves, but at what cost? Gilbert Arenas could be going to jail or out of the NBA for a while or maybe even both. Would receiving those sanctions really be worth losing out on a lucrative contract? I tend to think not.