Orioles' Luke Scott on Arenas: 'It's just stupidity … he's a coward'

Luke Scott’s love affair with guns is nothing new: Witness this ESPN piece from 2006 (Jack Bauer approves). But last week we got the news that Scott has on occasion taken guns into the Orioles clubhouse (locked in a gun box, so he says). So is the Baltimore DH symathetic to Gilbert Arenas and his legal troubles involving guns in the locker room? Not exactly. Scott appeared on DC radio station 106 The Fan earlier this week and blasted Arenas for the incident in which he left three guns at a teammates’ locker.
Oh, and there are other interesting tidbits in the interview, like Scott claiming that carrying a concealed weapon has saved his life twice, and a kind of wacky imaginary scenario involving terrorists. So let’s get on with this post, Mr. President … we’re running out of TIME!

Excerpts, via Dan Steinberg’s DC Sports Bog:
On Arenas leaving three guns on a teammate’s chair with a note reading ‘pick one.’:

“Well yeah, it’s just stupidity. As men, my belief is this: if you’ve got a problem with somebody, you know what, we can solve it with words. And if we can’t solve it with words, that’s fine. Let’s go outside, let’s go in the clubhouse, wherever, we’ll duke it out, we’ll roll around on the ground and that will be it. But you pull a gun on somebody and you make threats like that, you’re a coward. You’re a coward. And to me, I was shocked. I was shocked. You’re making millions of dollars, life is pretty good for you, no reason to do that.”

On MLB moving to ban guns from the clubhouse:

“I just think it’s a load of baloney, because the real issue is guys don’t go into clubhouse and point guns and do all this crazy stuff. I’ll tell you that. If I saw that, there’d be a fistfight, or I’d give them a piece of my mind, because guns are not toys. You know, I’ve carried a weapon for 10 years, never shot anybody, never robbed anybody. It has saved my life twice, but I know they’re not toys. I practice with firearms, I enjoy shooting, it’s a hobby of mine and I have a healthy respect for them.”

Scott talks about one of those times, apparently, here. On reasons one might want to bring a gun into the clubhouse:

“And I’ll be honest, the truth is, no. We have great security in major league baseball, we have police officers, we have Secret Service, we have local law enforcement at the gates. The only thing that you would have to be worried about would be a tactical terrorist invasion where you would be held hostage, where if you would have people with military training come in and plan an attack like that. That is highly unlikely. I really don’t see that happening, so there’s really no argument against it.”

Dwight Schrute also approves.
Hear the entire radio interview here.
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Luke Scott says Gilbert incident was ‘stupidity’ [DC Sports Bog]