The gun control mob is at it again, and this time, Eagles wide receiver Josh Huff is the target.
On Thursday morning, the Philadelphia Eagles released Huff after he was arrested for driving under the influence and unlawful possession of a weapon on Tuesday.
Huff was reportedly pulled over on the Walt Whitman bridge for speeding and having windows that were too tinted. Shortly thereafter, he was arrested for allegedly having a gun with hollow point bullets and a small amount of marijuana.
It is illegal to have hollow point bullets in New Jersey, where authorities claimed to have stopped him.
While Huff apologized to his teammates for the unnecessary “distraction,” he was quick to defend his right to bear arms.
“I’m a professional athlete, what professional athlete doesn’t have a gun?” Huff said to reporters. “I have a wife and I have a son at home. My job is to protect them at all costs, and my job is to protect myself as well even though I know I have security here, but I have to protect myself as well.”
Huff was initially expected to play on Sunday against the New York Giants, but was cut only a couple days after he was arrested.
The 25-year-old standout who played at Oregon admitted that he just wasn’t as familiar with laws in New Jersey.
“I’m from Houston. You can’t trust a lot of people in Houston. There’s always somebody out to get you. You’ve got to protect yourself,” Huff explained. “Even when I’m back in Houston, I always have a gun on me, because there’s been several instances in Houston where I’ve lost a friend to gun violence, and he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, so why would I let that happen to me?”
Players have been suspended for operating a vehicle while under the influence or intoxicated and carrying a little bit of weed. Yet, Huff getting cut from the team for carrying a gun and defending his Second amendment rights is apparently reprehensible to the NFL.
He would’ve been better off hitting his wife or girlfriend unconscious in an Atlantic City casino elevator.
