At the end of what might be his last pregame media availability, Gregg Popovich asked if any of the reporters had brought guns into the arena, then had so e things to say about lack of gun control regulation in Tennessee and, well, everywhere in the U.S. pic.twitter.com/a6DQtAqxMy
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San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich is widely recognized as one of the most outspoken and woke figures in the NBA.
In a recent interview with reporters, Popovich shifted the focus away from his possible retirement and instead pleaded for more gun control in the US, citing the recent mass killing in Nashville, TN, as evidence of the need for change.
During the back and forth with the media on Sunday, the 74-year-old lashed out at Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) and Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN).
“I mean, I couldn’t believe it, so I wrote this thing down,” Popovich said. “But Senator Marsha Blackburn, her comment after was, after the massacre, ‘My office is in contact with federal, state and local officials and we stand ready to assist.’
“In what?! They’re dead! What are you going to assist with? Cleaning up their brains off the wall? Wiping the blood off the schoolroom floor? What are you going to assist with?
“And then there’s Governor Lee. I’m sorry to go on and on, but Bill Lee, ‘I’m closely monitoring the tragic situation. Please join us in prayer.’ What are you monitoring? They’re dead! Children, they’re dead,” exclaimed Popovich.
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The shooter targeted The Covenant School, a private Christian school in the city’s Green Hills neighborhood.
While authorities haven’t established a clear motive just yet, they have indicated the shooter picked that school, in part, because it was a soft target.
Coach Popovich rejected the idea that hardening schools with armed security would protect school children. He also called the 2A a “joke” and a “myth.”
“But they’re going to cloak all this stuff [in] the myth of the Second Amendment, the freedom. You know, it’s just a myth. It’s a joke. It’s just a game they play. I mean, that’s freedom. Is it freedom for kids to go to school and try to socialize and try to learn and be scared to death that they might die that day?
“But Ted Cruz will fix it, ‘cause he is gonna double the number of cops in the schools,” Popovich said derisively. “That’s what he wants to do. Well, that’ll create a great environment. Is that freedom? Or is it freedom to have a congressman who can make a postcard with all his family holding rifles, including an AR-15 or whatever. Is that cool? Is that like street cred for a Republican? That’s freedom? That’s more important than protecting kids? I don’t get it.”
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Research conducted by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) has revealed a trend of mass shootings occurring in locations designated as gun-free zones.
The CPRC study found that 98% of mass shootings took place in areas where the general public is prohibited from carrying firearms, as GunsAmerica recently highlighted.
Coach Popovich may recoil at the thought of hardening schools.
But someone should have asked him at the press conference if he feels the same about banks, courthouses, government buildings, airports, hospitals, stadiums, and sports arenas. Because all of those places are protected by good guys with guns.
Maybe it’s just me, but affording the same care to the most vulnerable and precious among us shouldn’t be all that controversial.
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Didn’t the latest shooting (reported in the news) just happen at a bank? Timing for the arguments…guess we should expect to have the freedom to live in Lebanon now.
I understand very well his frustration and I am with him until one point. There are at least two strong arguments against what he and all the other are saying but I will remind you just one:
1- What ever they say about how dangerous the guns are, it is undeniable that people kill not the guns. So instead on focusing on strong gun control, (which btw will weakens the law abiding citizens, not the criminals) how about focusing on questions like WHY and HOW this massacres are happening, because again, here is about people, NOT guns. But it is allot easier to point the tool instead of pointing at the idiot who is using it in the wrong way.
This is the human excrement the US Service Academies are turning out. Popovich is an Air Force Academy grad.
They gave us the gca ’68, and shut down the funny farms. This is similar to fdr taking away private gold but freeing-up the beer. And then there’s telling us if we like our doctor and health plan, we can keep ’em. (Another piece of that was recently judged illegal). The right hand giveth, and the left taketh away.
How about less gun control and more control over mentally unhinged people. If you are confused about if you have an inny or an outee you shouldn’t be able to get a gun.
Nobody cares what Popabonervich has to say, just retire already you old kook.
THEY SHOULD BE CALLED : “GUN FREE KILLING ZONES”
“HUNTING GROUNDS FOR THE INSANE” THE STUPIDITY OF IT “I” AND MANY OTHERS HERE, CAN STOP A MASS KILLER, BUT I HAVE TO HAVE MY GUN ON ME
This coach should stick to his mediocre antics near the court. He and those like him proudly wallow in the ignorance and delusions of intellectual sloth, making up rules and guesses on the basis of emotional whims and fancies abut a Constitution they have never carefully read, and about which they deny history. It is precisely because of the addle-brained claims and desired impositions of government that these condescending elitists lust after that We, the People, know we must cling to the 2A and its protections from them.
That dumbass should stick to coaching. Hopefully he retires to his basement and bemoans about all the laws he could change. I wonder if any of the security around his teams carry weapons. I bet HIS security are all blackbelt karate guys with sticks. Freaking moron needs to shut his soup cooler and speak to the press about the ONLY thing he knows about is which is getting 5 thugs to play a game.
Everybody open a Bible to the book of Revelations. We are in the end times. The Government is trying to control us all. Taking guns and God from the American people only to hurt the good guys that truly believe in the American dream and a life of happiness. Ban the drugs, and keep felons locked up!
What would a law look like that could off set the psych-ops that has been waged on the US population?