Overview
- The Saturday shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island left two people dead and nine wounded, according to news reports.
- Before Sunday’s Warriors game at the Trail Blazers, Kerr delivered an emotional three-minute appeal for action on gun violence.
- He asked Americans to contact their elected officials and demand change rather than looking away from recurring mass shootings.
- Kerr described gun reform as a nonpartisan issue and cited universal background checks as a widely supported example of a ‘common-sense’ measure.
- He criticized the influence of the gun lobby and spoke from personal experience, noting that his father was shot and killed in Beirut.