Sebastian Telfair Talks About His Daughter's Period as He Goes to Jail on Gun Charges
Daily Mail – A former NBA player had an emotional meltdown in a Brooklyn, New York courtroom on Monday after a judge sentenced him to more than three years in prison on gun possession charges.
Retired NBA point guard Sebastian Telfair, 34, started shouting and crying once the verdict was announced.
Officers had found three loaded handguns, a gas-powered submachine gun, extended magazines, ammunition and a ballistic vest in his vehicle during a traffic stop in 2017.
Telfair told the court that he’s being convicted of a ‘victimless crime’.
‘Please don’t take me from society right now,’ Telfair told the court. ‘I am 34. I can go play in China for six years and take care of my family. I’m waiting for my daughter right now to get her period. Real mental illness because I wasn’t around… She hasn’t even gotten her period yet.’
‘Put a gun in his hand and fight for us n—- … I go to the gun store. I got an American Express,’ he added. …
He was driving a Ford F-150 with a friend around 2.50am on June 11, 2017 when police said they pulled over the duo because their truck’s headlights weren’t on. … Telfair said he had a Florida concealed carry license for the weapons, but he did not have a license to carry the guns in New York.
He said that he didn’t know the guns were in the car because he was going through a divorce at the time and paid movers to put some of his belongings in his truck and transport them up from Florida to New York for him, before he arrived back.
I’ve been at the blogging game long enough to know you don’t put your tongue on the frozen flagpole of a divisive, polarizing issue like gun control. Generally speaking I lean more towards gun rights. But the truth is I know less about firearm laws than I do about menstrual cycles. I’m not ashamed to admit that.
But it seems to me everyone is looking for an objective standard as to when the government can legally take someone’s guns away. Every time there’s a mass shooting, that’s what the argument more or less degenerates into. Well allow me to suggest this could be one. A helpful standard we can apply to determine where the line is between self defense and potentially dangerous. Simply put, if you’re carrying this arsenal in your truck:
… while driving around with your headlights out, saying you didn’t know it was there because you let some minimum wage furniture movers handle the weapons without knowing where they put them, you didn’t realize you needed to be licensed in New York, and then when you’re being sent away to jail you start talking about playing in China and bring your daughter’s period into the conversation? Let’s me humbly suggest that’s as good a place to draw the line as any.
Again, I’m not trying to start a political argument. I haven’t asked for anybody’s vote since the time my brothers and I did a cook off at the Weymouth Elks. I just think this is a reasonable, objective standard that even the Founding Fathers would’ve written into the 2nd Amendment if Jefferson had the space. “The right to keep and bear arms will not be infringed. But if you start raving about your daughter not getting a visit from Aunt Flo, all bets are off” or words to that effect.
Still, let’s all wish nothing but the best for Sebastian Telfair, who clearly is a man in some distress. Hopefully he gets counseling in prison, is released early for good behavior and returns to his family. He’s in our thoughts and prayers. Along with his lawyer, who could not only stand to tell his clients how to conduct themselves at a sentencing hearing, but seriously needs to rethink his hair game. That probably added 6 months to Telfair’s sentence, because it is criminal.
