Basketball, sport, have gone far behind.
Particularly emotional and angry, Golden State coach Steve Kerr brushed aside everything else and pleaded during his press conference just before Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals, in Dallas, won by the Mavericks in front of the Warriors (119-109) for gun control in response to a Texas school shooting that killed 19 people on Tuesday.
"I'm not going to talk about basketball," Kerr said.
Since we left the training session, 14 children have been killed 600 km from here, and a teacher.
In the past ten days, black seniors have been killed in a supermarket in Buffalo, Asian worshipers have been killed in Southern California, and now children have been killed in school.”
An 18-year-old opened fire earlier Tuesday at a primary school in the municipality of Uvalde, killing 18 young students and at least one teacher.
A drama that plunged America back into a chronic nightmare and immediately revived the debate on firearms in the United States.
“When are we going to do something?
I'm tired, resumed Steve Kerr, throat tight, misty eyes.
Tired of standing in front of you to offer my condolences to the devastated families.
I have enough.
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?
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Hitting the table with his hand, Kerr, whose father was assassinated by Islamist terrorists in Beirut in 1984, attacked American senators who refuse to legislate despite the litany of massacres: "Do you realize that 90% of Americans, regardless of political orientation, want criminal or psychological background checks on purchasers of small arms?
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.”
Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James also expressed outrage and called for change.
" That's enough!!!
They are children and we continue to endanger them at school.
Seriously!
AT SCHOOL, where it's supposed to be safest!
It just needs to change.
IT HAS TO CHANGE !
“, he tweeted.
Stars of the NFL, the professional American football league, have also reacted in this direction, such as quarterback Patrick Mahomes, winner of the Super Bowl with the Kansas City Chiefs and who grew up in Texas, or DeMarcus Lawrence, defender of the Dallas Cowboys, who spoke directly to that state's Governor, Greg Abbott:
"Who's going to step in and DEMAND that we have better security in all these schools that can't afford it????"
How is it that our tax dollars are not going to those who need protection the most?
!!!
OUR CHILDREN!
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
".
