Group USA males’s basketball coach Steve Kerr has referred to the tried assassination of former U.S.President Donald Trump as “such a demoralizing day for our nation.” in a narrative by ESPN’s Brian Windhorst.
Talking in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, the place the lads’s group is getting ready for the upcoming Paris Olympics, Kerr, who additionally coaches the Golden State Warriors, advised reporters: “It’s one more instance of not solely our political division but additionally gun tradition.
“A 20-year-old with an AR-15 attempting to shoot the previous president. It’s onerous to course of every part, and it’s scary to consider the place this goes due to the problems that exist already within the nation. So it is a horrible day.
“Thank god Trump wasn’t hit, nevertheless it’s simply so demoralizing in each which approach.”
Born in Lebanon, Beirut, the 58-year-old Kerr was simply 18 when his father, Malcolm H. Kerr, was killed by members of the Islamic Jihad in 1984 whereas working because the president of the American College of Beirut. Kerr has an extended historical past of talking out in opposition to gun violence.
Warriors level guard Steph Curry echoed his coach’s ideas when talking to reporters in regards to the assassination try.
“It’s clearly a really unhappy, simply time normally,” Curry stated. “All of the conversations across the election and the state of politics in our nation, after which you might have a scenario like this, which simply invokes a variety of feelings round issues that we have to appropriate as a individuals: gun management, at the beginning.
“You need positivity and hope — it sounds tacky, nevertheless it’s actual. “That’s when our nation’s at its greatest and (the taking pictures) simply provides one other blemish to what’s happening.”
