As Gilbert Arenas avoids jail, all average people will scratch their heads

After taking guns to the Verizon Center and threatening Javaris Crittenton, his teammate, after a fight over a card-game debt that definitely didn't involve guaranteed loans, the Washington Wizards' guard Gilbert Arenas avoided jail. The prosecution is labeling Gilbert's "self serving, ever-evolving" story a phony attempt to try and hide a pattern of "thuggish" intimidation and bullying while Arenas and his defense attorneys say it was just "a prank gone wrong," according to the Washington Post. D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert Morin at first sentenced “Agent Zero” to 18 months in jail, but that part of the sentence was suspended. In Morin's mind, 30 days in a halfway hou! se, 400 hours of community service, two years probation, and $ 5,000 donation to a crime victim's fund are all that Gilbert Arenas owes to the community.

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So of course the $ 5,000 donation is appallingly low. Payday loans would do the crime victims just as well. But what about the lack of jail time since he will continue to be with the NBA as well as with the Washington Wizards? Even with guns being unloaded as Gilbert Arenas says his guns were, your average person who brings a gun to work is going to serve jail time and be fired.Saying it was a practical joke wouldn't make no never-mind at all. Not serving in jail is an affront to justice, whether Arenas is a joker who doesn't know when to stop or is a common gang-banger with more money than brains.

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The Post says that he said he "weighed several factors in issuing his sentence." First of all, the firearms in question were registered in Virginia. The probation bell might have been rung since this occurred in D.C..Secondly, Arenas has no background that was documented of violence, and it wasn't established that the guns were loaded. Start up Lee Greenwood’s “Proud to Be an American!”

Gilbert Arenas faced gun charges before.

In 2003, while leaving the Golden State Warriors as a free agent, Arenas was arrested outside of San Francisco when police discovered a gun in his car during a traffic stop.It was registered in Arizona, but not California. “Agent Zero” pleaded no contest to illegal gun possession and served two years of probation.