NFL players: Three out of four own guns
David Leon Moore, USA TODAY SportsShare
11:12AM EST December 7. 2012
NFL players say they need to own guns for protection, and that hasn’t changed despite the Jovan Belcher shootings.
Most players say Jovan Belcher murder-suicide will not change attitudes”I was always shocked at the number,” says former coach Tony Dungy of gun ownershipMany cite 2007 death of Sean Taylor from home invasion as motivation for buying guns
Former NFL running back Thomas Jones was always around guns, long before he became a football-carrying member of that unofficial gun club within the National Football League.
As a kid, he and his buddies fired guns in the woods in Big Stone Gap, Va. They’d shoot bottles and go hunting.
His dad had guns.
Jones bought his first gun his senior year at the University of Virginia, and, as a rookie with the Arizona Cardinals a dozen years ago, he learned quickly that guns were an ingrained part of the NFL culture.
