Former South Carolina DB Antonio Allen addresses ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws in wake of Joe McKnight’s death
By Adam Spencer
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Former New York Jet RB/KR Joe McKnight was shot and killed in a road-rage incident on Thursday in Terrytown, Louisiana.
The death of their former teammate left the players in the Jets locker room searching for words.
Former South Carolina DB Antonio Allen, who played with McKnight on the Jets in 2012 and the 2013 preseason, said the best thing that could be done to honor McKnight’s memory is to fix the flawed gun laws in states like Louisiana, according to the New York Post:
“We’ve got a lot of work to do in this society with all these gray areas in the laws and this [“Stand Your Ground”] law, in particular,” Allen said. “We’ve got to fix it.”
Allen wants to prevent senseless deaths like McKnight’s in the future, or at least leave the door open to prosecution for the shooter:
“He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and now he’s gone,” Allen said. “What a stupid tragedy.”
McKnight was only 28 at the time of his death.
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