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Golden State Warriors coach steve kerr Expressed regret that he was once again speaking about gun violence before the game portland Seven years later he addressed the horrific mass shooting parklandFlorida.
Kerr spoke before Golden State’s game at the Trail Blazers on Sunday night, a day after a shooting at Brown University left two people dead and nine others injured.
“It’s just a reminder to me that shootings like this keep happening and we can do something about them,” Kerr said. “The loss that all the people went through last night, the loss that they’re feeling, it’s exactly the same loss as the Parkland families and all the other mass shootings. Nobody asked me about it today. I didn’t expect anybody to ask me. … It’s human nature to think, ‘This is so terrible. Let’s not even think about it.’ But, we have to think about it.”
Kerr, whose father Malcolm Kerr was assassinated in Beirut in 1984, has been a vocal supporter of gun control laws.
Before a February game in Portland in 2018, Kerr expressed his disappointment at the accused shooter nicolas cruz Legally purchased an AR-17 before killing 17 people and injuring a dozen more at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
On Sunday, Kerr said that the majority of gun owners in the United States are responsible, law-abiding citizens who have the full right to own a gun. But he also said the majority of Americans support reasonable measures to prevent gun violence.
“We know there are common sense measures we can take that will save people’s lives. And I just want to get people out there, it doesn’t matter whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican, or a gun owner or a non-gun owner, I just want people to think, if this was my child, my brother or sister, what would have happened, would you be willing to stand in front of your representatives and say, `You know what? That’s it.'”
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