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

After bringing 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 calling 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. Robert Morin, the D.C. Superior Judge, had sentenced "Agent Zero" to 18 months in jail at first but that part of the sentence was apparently suspended. In Morin's mind, 30 days in a half! way house, 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 disgustingly 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.The practical joke defense wouldn’t hold water. Not serving in jail is effrontery 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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What he did say, according to the Post, is that he “weighed several factors in issuing his sentence." First, the firearms he possessed were registered in Virginia. However, this occurredin Washington, D.C., which may have rung the probation bell.Secondly, Arenas has no history that was documented of violence, and it wasn't established that the guns were loaded. Guess we ought to cue Lee Greenwood's "Proud to Be an American!"

Gilbert Arenas had gun charges before.

In 2003, while exiting 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 not registered in California, although it was registered in Arizona. "Agent Zero"served two years probation after he pled no contest to illegal gun possession.