Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr is an assistant with the U.S. Men’s National Team ahead of the 2019 FIBA World Cup. It is an off-season role, following a vacation, which should be relaxed by comparison to his full-time gig.
But the coach is far from relaxed, he is as concerned as many Americans are about safety following two mass shootings in less than 24 hours over the weekend. Kerr backed up a tweet from Monday in a conversation with Bay Area News Group at USMNT practice to start the week.
“I think about it all the time,” Kerr told the Bay Area News Group Monday. “Somebody could walk in the door in the gym right now and start spraying us with an AR-15. They could. It might happen because we’re all vulnerable, whether we go to a concert, a church, the mall or go to the movie theatre or a school.”
Kerr, who sported a gun control shirt to Game 2 of this year’s NBA Finals and participated in a town hall about gun laws in 2016, emphasized that his primary concern surrounds the accessibility of military-style weapons. The coach believes that assault rifles with “huge magazines,” should be outlawed.
