Steve Kerr refused to answer questions about basketball two hours before the Warriors took the court. The only thing on the Warriors head coach's mind was the lives lost in a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, 355 miles away. The school shooting claimed 19 lives as of Tuesday evening. When are we going to do something? I'm tired of being up here and offering sympathies to families that have been devastated. I'm tired of the silence. Kerr was shaken and frustrated. The Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021, which all 50 Republican members of the U.S. Senate have refused to vote on, was mentioned by Kerr.
They won't vote on it because they want to hold onto power, Kerr said. Of the elderly and church-goers? That is what it looks like. It's what we do every week.
Gun violence has caused personal tragedy for Kerr. Malcolm Kerr, the president of the American University of Beirut, was assassinated in 1984. The Islamic Jihad Organization took responsibility for the attack. Uvalde is halfway between the Mexican border and San Antonio.
I have had enough. We are going to play the game tonight. If this happened to you, how would you feel, your own child, your grandchild, your mother, father, sister, brother, how would you feel? Let's have a moment of silence, we can just read about it and go. Go Dubs. We're going to do that. We are going to play a game.
Fifty senators in Washington are going to hold us hostage. 90 percent of Americans want universal background checks, regardless of political party. We are being held hostage by 50 senators in Washington who refuse to vote despite what the American people want. They will not vote on it because they want to retain their power. It's pathetic. I have had enough.
Kerr isn't the only person who spoke out after the shooting.
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