I don't judge drinking crimes. Up here where shooting, drinking, and driving are synonomous with each other I am a hypocrite to venture an opinion. But beating dogs, come on Ron Mexico. But then apparently that's a culutural thing in the South.
BTW a good shot made on a pheasant is one where you drive parallel to it, stick your shotgun out the window and then blast away.
I think you have to look at Plaxico shooting himself in the leg as utterly stoooopid. Vick with the dogs as exercising extreme poor judgement, repeatedly. And Stallworth as something that could have happened to quite a few of us. I know I've driven home a lot more lit up than he was, but that was when I was much younger. Getting married has a way of fixing old bad habits.