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NBA: "When are we going to act?", the strong emotion of Steve Kerr after the killing in a school in Texas

2022-05-25T06:42:10.486Z


The Golden State Warriors coach was moved to tears before his meeting in Dallas, overshadowed by the deadly shooting at a Texas school.


"

I'm not going to talk about basketball.

Before Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals in Dallas, Texas, Steve Kerr, coach of the Golden State Warriors, admitted that he was not in the game after the shooting at a Texas school, where at at least 18 students died along with a teacher.

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During a press conference, the Warriors manager had a lump in his throat: “

Since we left the training session, 14 children have been killed 600 km from here, and a teacher.

In the past ten days, it's black seniors who have been killed in a supermarket in Buffalo, Asian churchgoers killed in Southern California, and now children have been killed in school

."

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When are we going to do something?

I'm tired, Kerr continued, moved to tears.

I'm tired of standing in front of you to offer my condolences to the devastated families.

We are going to play tonight.

But I want every listener to think of their own child or grandchild, mother or father, sister or brother.

How would you feel if this happened to you today?

asked Kerr, whose father was murdered by Islamist terrorists, in Beirut in 1984.

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The former player, whose father was assassinated by Islamist terrorists in Beirut in 1984, urged politicians to act.

"

90% of Americans, regardless of political orientation, want background checks or psychological checks on purchasers of small arms

," ​​he said, banging his fist on the table.

While the gun lobby, which Joe Biden calls on to fight, remains important in the American political ecosystem, carrying a gun remains a right enshrined in the American constitution, leading to such acts, committed this Tuesday by a 18 year old teenager.

We are being held hostage by 50 senators in Washington who refuse to even put this measure to a vote, despite what we, the American people, want

,” Kerr laments.

Source: lefigaro

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