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"It's sad": Dennis Schröder
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National basketball player Dennis Schröder was dismayed by the recent killing spree in his adopted home of the USA.
»People going to school and doing things like that – it has to stop.
We've been talking about it for years," said Schröder in Berlin.
He knows the state of Texas, most recently he played in the North American basketball league NBA as a point guard for the Houston Rockets.
A gunman killed at least 21 people, including 19 children, in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday.
It is the worst crime of its kind since the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre in December 2012, which killed 20 children and six adults.
And it's already deadlier, according to preliminary figures, than the 2018 Parkland, Florida high school shooting, which killed 17 people, 14 of them teenagers.
Alarming figures - also for Schröder.
»Sending my children to school or kindergarten – I don't want that anymore in America.
It's just too dangerous," says the father of two: "My condolences to all the families.
It is sad."
NBA coach Steve Kerr had previously commented on the massacre at a press conference for his team.
"I'm so tired," said the 56-year-old Golden State Warriors coach, "I'm so tired of sitting here sending best wishes to the devastated families.
I'm so tired of the minutes of silence.
Enough!"
US President Joe Biden had already denounced the rampant gun violence in his country on Tuesday evening, which he attributes to gun laws.
"When in God's name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?" Biden asked.
It is high time "to turn this pain into action for every parent, every citizen of this country".
He was "disgusted and tired.
Losing a child is like having a piece of your soul ripped out.”
An overview of the events in Uvalde and what has happened since can be found here.
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