Steve Kerr and the Golden State Warriors played a game in Texas just hours after an elementary school shooting. At a press conference before the match, the trainer was clear: “I will not talk about basketball here”.
He did make an emotional appeal. Kerr wants gun laws in the United States to become stricter. It is not surprising that this theme touches him so much. The coach himself lost his father in a 1984 shooting at a university in Beirut.
“When are we going to do something?” he shouted. “I’m so tired of this. I’m tired of always having to express my condolences to those torn families and those minutes of silence. It’s enough.”
Kerr primarily wants a background check on people who want to buy a gun. But he says political courage is lacking. “There are 50 senators who refuse, even though that proposal has been on the table for years. 90 percent of Americans support it. But the senators do not want to lose their power. Do you really prefer your own power over the lives of innocent children?”
“It’s pathetic,” he cried before he left the room emotionally.
