Shaquille O’Neal

It can be hard to be a person like Shaquille O' Neal. I remember meeting him many years ago and thought he was the biggest human being to ever live.

Neal is a 7-foot-1 man and has weighed over 300 pounds for his entire adult life. People were going to notice him even if he wasn't one of the greatest athletes of all time. In response to the Wedding Crashers rule of drawing attention to yourself, but on your own terms, I have made a new rule.

Since the commercial where he pulls the basket down to himself, he's owned his size the only way he knows how, by imposing it on everyone else. It made him one of the greatest players in the history of the NBA, but it could also make him hard to deal with. He liked being in charge and being in the spotlight. His first two NBA partnerships, Anfernee and Hardaway, did not have storybook endings.

In recent weeks he has been very thoughtful about his entire life and admitted that his ego got in the way of those partnerships. He did an interview with Taylor Rooks of Bleacher Report. The highlights included a speech by Shaq on living with the regret of not reaching out to Bryant and his late sister more in life, and on suffering the consequences of being a selfish partner in marriage.

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Before the Golden State Warriors-Dallas Mavericks Game 4 on Tuesday evening, there was a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. During the pre-game show, the man who played high school basketball in San Antonio went to him first.

They aired a video of a furious Steve Kerr calling out Congress at large and McConnell for blocking the vote on a gun reform bill that passed the House of Representatives and was promptly stonewalled on the Senate floor. The bill would require nationwide background checks for firearm sales between private parties. Neal agreed with Kerr that action is necessary, but said that we need to go further than background checks alone. Some people don't show an I.D. or go to the gun counter.

In 1981 Newark recorded a record high 161 murders with a population of around 329,000. His point is correct. Obtaining a federal firearms license is not difficult. You can legally sell guns in the United States if you pay $200, give a photo, and pass a background check. According to the report, fewer than 15 percent of those licensed are inspected every year.

A lot of that is due to the ATF being used as a target. The lobbyist group has used its influence to make it harder for the government to keep track of firearms. According to the New York Times, the number of inspectors watching over gun transactions has decreased since 2001 as gun sales continue to reach record highs. The organization influenced the limits placed on the ATF's ability to regulate forearms, as it did in 2011. The ATF had a large stack of paper records. According to the Times, 1.2 percent of dealers account for 57 percent of the firearms traced back to crimes. The weapons and criminals who are never found are just those traced.

straw purchaser are people who can pass a background check and then put their purchased weapon in the hands of someone who can get guns into them. Chicago is currently suing an Indiana gun store, Westforth Sports, for allowing hundreds of those types of purchases for guns that were used in crimes in the city.

The students from the school in Florida that was the site of a shooting in which 17 people were killed advocated for stricter gun laws when they were given a chance to speak in Washington. They put a focus on the low-income Black and Hispanic communities where gun violence happens more often. The guns all originate from the same places and do the same terrible damage.

There was a murder at a church in Orange County, Calif., inspired by anti-Tawanese sentiment, in less than two weeks after a bigot killed 10 people at a grocery store in a predominantly Black neighborhood. There were more than that.

The Big Diesel and the kids in Parkland are on something. Everything should be put together. Don't separate these incidents from each other because that will cause outrage to die off. The National Rifle Association believes that a gun should face less regulation than a box of cereals.

It's not possible to stop people from being angry, abusive, damaged, impoverished, bigoted, brainwashed, or anything else that leads someone to kill a person. As good of a step as H.R. 8 would be, so are like minded people unifying for a common cause. The N.R.A proved that it works and a 50-year-old, more thoughtful, man like Shaq wants people to apply those same principles but for good. A lot of people in this country are fed up with gun violence. Let's be angry on each other's behalf, so that the issue doesn't burn up so quickly after what happened in Uvalde is no longer a current event.