“When are we going to do something?! I’m so tired of getting up here and offering condolences to the devastated families that are out there. I’m so tired … of the moments of silence.'
“Since we left shoot-around, 14 children killed 400 miles from here and a teacher,” Kerr, who made the remarks in a press conference before the latest death toll was reported, said. “And in the last 10 days, we’ve had elderly Black people killed in a supermarket in Buffalo, we’ve had Asian churchgoers killed in Southern California, and now we have children murdered at school.”
The coach added that there are 50 senators who “vote on HR-8,” the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021, that the House “passed a couple years ago. It’s been sitting there for two years.” Kerr is an advocate for gun control after his father, Malcolm, was killed by a gunman in 1984, per the“I ask you, Are you going to put your own desire for power ahead of the lives of our children and our elderly, and our churchgoers? Because that’s what it looks like,” Kerr expressed, adding how he’s “fed up” and has “had enough.”
“We are being held hostage by 50 senators in Washington who refuse to even put it to a vote, despite what we the American people want. They won’t vote on it because they want to hold onto their own power. It’s pathetic! I’ve had enough,” he exclaimed before getting up and leaving the room.
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