GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS head coach Steve Kerr has highlighted the importance of athletes and sports stars speaking about issues like gun violence in the United States, after 11 people were shot dead at a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday.
Speaking to reporters before yesterday’s Warriors-Nets match in Brooklyn, the 53-year-old said that no-one should be able to own a semiautomatic weapon and urged voters to do the talking in the 6 November midterm elections.
“Nobody in this country should have a semiautomatic weapon of war,” he said. “I’m going to vote for every candidate that’s willing to stand up to the NRA and say you know what, this is insane.
“We’re murdering each other every day. We have to get rid of bump stocks. We have to get rid of high-capacity magazines. Other countries don’t go through this.”
Kerr’s father was murdered by gunmen in 1984, and the Warrior’s coach said that it was important for sports stars to speak out “because the times call for it”, describing the United States as “broken.”
“It’s easy to feel how broken we are right now as a country and everybody can have influence, not just our political leaders,” he added.
“We need our leaders to step up, unite the country with the appropriate words, the appropriate actions, and we’re not getting that right now.”
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At last, powerful and heartfelt words. His own personal loss of his dad to gun crime is testimony to what he has to say.
Like he says, it’s insane and fair play to him for highlighting as approx 20k murdered every year in US.
Legend of a player at the Bulls. Showing his legendary status as a human being with his outspoken opinion on gun crime.
Problem is the GOP folks won’t read articles that disagree with the nra sponsored politicians tv/radio muppets. The same eejits buy more guns every time they hear “gun control”
Problem is the deplorables won’t read articles that disagree with the NRA propaganda spouted by NRA backed politicians and tv/radio mouth pieces. Or The same half wits buy more guns every time they hear “gun control”
Nice words but It won’t change anything. Gun violence is part of America. It will never be stopped and will probably get worse.
It’s gotten too the stage that guns are too readily available around the country never mind gun stores….people are buying them willy nilly on the streets….gun laws should have been changed years ago….it’s just ridiculous that it’s taken for this people to turn there heads because for years it was its just been ah we will bat an eye lid and please the masses…..I just hope that the American people band together and for the sake of future generations there that there changed for the better.