Following yet another mass shooting, Steve Kerr addressed a topic that the Golden State Warriors coach appears to find increasingly frustrating: gun control.
Earlier on Wednesday, a heavily-armed 19-year-old opened fire at a South Florida high school, killing 17 people.
Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr called out politicians, the National Rifle Association and the wall President Trump seeks to build along the border with Mexico in the hours after another fatal mass shooting
Kerr said. “It doesn’t seem to matter to our government that children are being shot to death day after day in schools. It doesn’t seem to matter that people are being shot at a concert, in a movie theater.
Before Kerr’s Warriors faced the Portland Trailblazers on Wednesday, ESPN’s Chris Haynes asked Kerr if he felt “fatigue” from addressing these shootings when “nothing is being done to resolve the issue.
It’s not enough, apparently, to move our leadership, our government, the people running our country, to actually do anything. That’s demoralizing,” continued Kerr, who previously has said gun control should be considered a public health issue.
Kerr penned a story for Sports Illustrated in September after Trump rescinded the Warriors’ invite to the White House — even if it was clear the Warriors would likely have skipped the championship visit anyway.
the president works for us, not vice versa,” Kerr wrote. “We elected him. He doesn’t just work for his constituents and his base. He works for every citizen.
“But we can do something about it. We can vote people in who actually have the courage to protect peoples’ lives and not just bow down to the NRA because they finance their campaign for them. So, hopefully, we will find enough people to vote good people with courage to actually help our citizens remain safe and focus on the real safety issues and not building some stupid wall for billions of dollars that has nothing to do with our safety, but actually protecting us from what truly is dangerous — which is maniacs with semi-automatic weapons (who) are just slaughtering our children. It’s disgusting.
