Patriots player charged with walking around Logan Airport with two loaded guns

Your schtick is well past its prime. Time to put it down son.

Similar to driving. It’s wonderful

I've seen military guys travel with rifles and avoid arrest. There's a process to travel with firearms, but it requires reading and understanding rules. There's even a video to help gun owners: https://www.tsa.gov/travel/transporting-firearms-and-ammunition
But nooooo. This guy is like, "I'm going to walk right through there with my plastic lower gun and the metal detector won't see it...".

I never got how loose things were either. When you are talking about multi million dollar long term contracts you'd think they could slip in all sorts of stipulations designed to keep the players from self destructing. The players that seemed to get through it best had that structure around them. Like Gronk, his parents were very involved and he set things up so his salary was put aside but he could play around with his endorsement money. He tagged along with people like Brady instead of buying his own luxury jet. He even found a way to still not only party but get laid to do it lol.

It's crazy how many of these players end up with nothing after they go past their prime despite even the lowest paid players bring paid more than many CEOs. From both sides of the equation it seems like the sports industrial complex and players just literally pour money down the drain by not being proactive about counseling and adding support infrastructure in place to mold the players.

Part of this orientation program involves financial experts and others who give presentations to the players about common traps to avoid (e.g. a rash of relatives and friends wanting you to "invest" in their business idea).

You don't need the gun if the wealth isn't on your person. Do you see Warren Buffett walking around with jewelry? Why isn't this more widely understood? Unless, of course, he was planning on using the gun to extract wealth from, or harm, somebody else.

Even if you didn't grow up in a circle that's anywhere near sound advice on wealth management, didn't this fool ever see a Domino's vehicle which read "Driver carries less than $20?"

Retail banks have their flaws (and their injustices), but the biggest ones succeed in their efforts to keep your cash safe. And if you don't trust them, then just stick the $4M in the Dow Jones and/or Switzerland, and get a home in a nice community. There's no obligation to engage scumbags from your youth after you make yourself successful.

Running into a ton of money all of a sudden, like moving to a new place, doesn't make one person's demons go away; in many case it just enable them.

I absolutely believe Hayden would wish to lower the charge to avoid the mandatory minimum sentence, but it is the large capacity feeding device causing the problem for him. One could try to argue that he needs to protect himself as a wealthy high profile individual and that is was just a failure to go through proper channels to get a license. However, the feeding device is never legal in Massachusetts and it alone carries its own mandatory minimum. That will be hard for Hayden to let fly under the radar. There's only one reason to have one.
Due to it I think he will need to serve time. If Hayden lets Kraft and the NFL know he plans to charge him as it currently stands without reducing, Kraft should release him asap.
The real question is why does this franchise keep picking up players who have the types of issues he had displayed while in and out of college before the NFL. Aaron Hernandez had similar issues. It is one thing to draft a player with an injury history. It is another to draft players with an established rap sheet. There must be a reason. Maybe that is the true "Patriot Way".
I hope Jonathan has better character than his father. Josh is good people like his mother.