LeBron James is among those to wonder how someone under the legal age to drink alcohol can purchase an assault rifle.
The Cleveland Cavaliers superstar offered this thoughts on last week's Stoneman Douglas High School shooting during his media availability at NBA All-Star Weekend.
"It's a tragedy," James said. "We've seen these schools and these tragedies happen in America, and there's been no change to gun control. I don't have the answer to this. Let's just sit here and have a round table right now because I don't have the answers right now. But we have to do something about it."
James, who played four seasons with the Miami Heat, was mostly concerned with how 19-year-old accused shooter Nikolas Cruz was able to purchase a firearm that was used to kill 17 students and teachers and injure 16 more.
"We have a kid who wasn't legally [able] to buy a beer at a bar, but he can go buy an AR-15? It doesn't make sense," James said. "I'm not saying it should be legal for him to go buy beer. But how is it possible that we can have minors go buy a gun? I don't have the answer to it. But to the families in Parkland, down in Broward County, it's sad and I'm sorry and it's just a tragedy and I hope we don't continue to see this because it's too many in the last 10 years with guns."
James, like so many others, offered his condolences to the friends and family of those who were affected by the tragedy.
"We're all sending our kids to school right? We drop them off at 8 o'clock," James said. "At 3:15 they're going to be ready to get picked up. Either we're picking them or someone in our family is picking them up or they have to take a bus or there's aftercare and they stay until 5. If they have study hall they stay until 5:30 or whatever. But we all feel like our kids are going to return, right?"
