Dolphins linebacker Joey Porter weighed in on the Plaxico Burress shooting on ESPN’s First Take this morning and stuck up for his former Steelers teammate’s decision to bring a gun with him to the Latin Quarter. Porter acknowledged Burress didn’t put himself in the “smartest situation” but feels he’s being treated unfairly by the Giants and the media. “Everybody has their mistakes, but that’s exactly what they are ... Until you’ve been in that situation, when you’ve been robbed at gunpoint or you’ve had a gun waved in your face or had your house broken into before or been carjacked, you really don’t know what it’s like ... They’re making [Burress] out to be such a bad guy but you look at all the guys that’s been robbed this year, all the home invasions, all the guys that’s been shot, like (Richard) Collier, look how many times he got shot.” Porter, who is licensed to carry a gun in California, went on to say that the idea that players carried guns to be tough was wrong. It’s all for safety, Porter argued, and he contradicted Roger Goodell’s notion that when players felt unsafe, they should just go somewhere else. “It’s a tough situation. I mean we’re always in the spotlight. So you can’t tell a person to stop living your normal life. You’re gonna go out and do these things. I’ve had my house broken into before ... I know Plax had been robbed before ... But it’s tough for us to say we’re professional athletes so we’re not supposed to protect ourselves.” Porter was the victim of a gunshot wound to the buttocks in 2003 while in Denver for a Colorado State-Colorado game. He missed two Steelers games that season.
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