Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr – well known for his support of gun restrictions – spoke to reporters unprompted for more than three minutes on the topic Sunday before his team’s road game against the Portland Trail Blazers.
“With what happened … at Brown, it’s just a reminder to me that these shootings continue to happen, and there is something we can do about them.
Steve Kerr, Golden State Warriors head coach
“The loss that all of the people involved (Saturday) night, the loss that they’re feeling, is exactly the same loss as all the Parkland families, and every other mass shooting,” he said, referring to the 2018 Florida high school massacre.
“Nobody asked me about it today. I didn’t expect anybody to ask me. I doubt we’re going do a moment of silence out there because it’s human nature just to not want to deal with this stuff. And it’s human nature just to think, ‘This is so horrible. Let’s not even think about it.’ But we have to think about it,” said Kerr, whose father, Malcolm Kerr, was killed by gunmen in Beirut in 1984.
“The vast majority of gun owners in this country are responsible, law-abiding citizens,” Steve Kerr said. “They have every right to own a gun, but it’s on us to decide if we actually want to take action as a country, as citizens.”