The day after a gunman walked into the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh with an AR-15-style assault weapon and three handguns and\u2026<\/b>
\nThe day after a gunman walked into the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh with an AR-15-style assault weapon and three handguns and killed 11 people, Warriors coach Steve Kerr somberly called the country \u201cbroken\u201d and again begged for stricter gun control.
\u201cIt\u2019s just devastating,\u201d Kerr said before his Warriors faced the Nets on Sunday at Barclays Center. \u201cI just expect it now, and that\u2019s the sad thing. I remember watching an interview with a student after the Santa Fe shooting \u2014 a shooting at Texas Santa Fe high school \u2014 a 14-year-old girl. And she was asked does this shock you? And she said, \u2018No, I kind of expected that this would happen to us at our school at some point.\u2019
\u201cAnd that\u2019s where we\u2019ve gotten as a country. We\u2019re broken right now. So nothing surprises us anymore, nothing surprises me anymore, whether its shootings at schools, churches, synagogues, malls, movie theaters. We need our leaders to step up, unite the country with the appropriate words, the appropriate actions, and we\u2019re not getting that right now. It\u2019s frustrating, and I don\u2019t know what else to say.\u201d
Kerr \u2014 whose father, Malcolm, was assassinated in Beirut by two gunmen in 1984 \u2014 has been one of the most outspoken coaches in sports. When asked why others haven\u2019t been quite as vocal, he said some are, but urged others to make their voices heard in the Nov. 6 midterm elections.
\u201cI don\u2019t know. I\u2019m not sure. You have to feel comfortable talking about whatever issue you\u2019re addressing. Not everybody feels comfortable in certain situations and circumstances,\u201d Kerr said. \u201cBut more and more you\u2019re seeing people in the sports world, athletes and coaches, speaking out because the times call for it. It\u2019s easy to feel how broken we are right now, our country is. Everybody can have influence, not just our political leaders but people who are well-known figures who have a camera in their face a lot or average citizens just being kind to each other, being nice to one another, not spewing hatred on social media.
\u201cThose are all things we have to think about and try to accomplish to get our country back on track. And we need to vote. I want to urge everybody to get out and vote on Nov. 6. Everybody has their own issues that are important to them. My personal issue is gun safety, gun control. Nobody in this country should have a semi-automatic weapon of war. That\u2019s my personal belief. So I\u2019m going to vote for every candidate that\u2019s willing to stand up to the NRA and say, \u2018You know what? This is insane. We\u2019re murdering each other every day.\u2019
\u201cWe have to get rid of bump stocks; we have to get rid of high-capacity magazines; we have to get rid of semi-automatic weapons. We just do. Other countries don\u2019t go through this. That\u2019s the issue that\u2019s most important to me, and those are the candidates that I\u2019ll be voting for, the ones who\u2019re willing to stand up and say, \u2018You know what? This is wrong. We\u2019ve got to protect our fellow citizens and protect our country.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

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