On Wednesday, the country was rocked by yet another mass shooting, this time at a high school in Parkland, Florida, where a former student went on a shooting spree that killed at least 17 people and wounded several others.
In the immediate aftermath, Democratic Senator from Connecticut Chris Murphy addressed Congress and urged them to enact long-overdue changes to current gun legislation, just as he did – ultimately in vain – in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012.
Prior to the Warriors game against the Blazers on Wednesday night, reporters asked Steve Kerr to comment on the situation in Florida, and the long-time proponent of common-sense gun laws didn’t pull any punches when eviscerating the current leadership’s continued failure to take action that would prevent these types of atrocities.
Steve Kerr on gun violence after a school shooting today in Florida pic.twitter.com/1uC2cvwQIT
— Mark Medina (@MarkG_Medina) February 15, 2018
“It doesn’t seem to matter that children are being shot to death day after day in our schools,” Kerr said. “We can do something about it. We can vote people in who actually have the courage to protect people’s lives and not just bow down to the NRA because they finance their campaign for them…and focus on real safety issues and not building some stupid wall for billions of dollars that has nothing to do with our safety…”
You can read his full comments above.
Kerr has been a vocal critic of the Trump administration on a number of issues and has never been shy about voicing his opinion on divisive topics for fear of alienating a certain subset of fans. The problem is that those comments from him and scores of others appear once again to be falling on deaf ears.
