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Schoolchildren killed in Texas: "Enough!" the emotion and anger of basketball coach Steve Kerr

2022-05-25T07:54:08.137Z


Before a meeting of his team Tuesday evening during the NBA play-offs, he took the floor to denounce the way in which the weapons circu


“When are we finally going to do something?

Steve Kerr, coach of the American basketball team of Goden State Warriors (California), got angry on Tuesday evening, shortly before a match that his team was to play in Dallas, Texas, State where had just had a school shooting.

He launched into a vibrant plea for the regulation of firearms in the United States.

"I'm not going to talk about basketball," Steve Kerr said at a press conference.

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

(Editor’s note: the toll has since been revised upwards)

.

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,” Kerr said. tight and misty eyes.

Steve Kerr on today's tragic shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

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— Golden State Warriors (@warriors) May 24, 2022

An 18-year-old opened fire earlier today at a primary school in the municipality of Uvalde, killing 18 young students and at least one teacher.

This tragedy plunged America back into a chronic nightmare and immediately revived the debate on firearms in the United States.

" I'm tired.

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 everyone listening 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 assassinated by Islamist terrorists in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1984.

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Hitting the table in front of him, he attacked the American senators who refuse to legislate despite the litany of massacres.

“Do you realize that 90% of Americans, regardless of their political orientation, want criminal or psychological background checks on purchasers of small arms?

We are taken hostage by 50 senators in Washington

(Editor's note: the American federal capital)

who refuse to even put this measure to a vote, despite what we, the American people, want, ”he denounced.

He attacked Mitch McConnell, the boss of the Republican senators, the American right: “Are you going to place your own desire for power higher than the life of children?

This is what it looks like.

We can't just sit down and have a moment of silence.

It is pathetic.

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Source: leparis

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