Since we left shoot, around 14 children
were killed 400 miles from here and a teacher.
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.
>> That's Steve Kerr, the coach for the Golden State Warriors basketball team.
He's about to share how fed up he is with gun violence in the United States.
Let's watch.
>> When are we going to do something?
I'm tired.
I'm so tired of getting up here and
offering condolences to the devastated families that are out there.
>> That was during a press conference right before an NBA game and
Kerr decided, you know what?
I'm not really interested in discussing this game.
I'm interested in discussing what just happened in the country with this mass
shooting in Uvalde Texas.
And what really stood out to me about his statements, about what
he had to say was just the passion in which he was sharing his point of view.
And it strikes close to home for him because his own father was shot and
killed in a university.
And so I can understand why he's infuriated.
In fact anyone with a conscience, anyone who's not selfish,
self centered narcissistic and concerned about their own profits, should be enraged
about what's happening in this country, not just with the mass shooting that
happened on an elementary school campus in a fourth grade classroom but
all the mass shootings that happened on a regular basis in this country.
Everyone should be furious and everyone should be clamoring for a way to solve it.
And that is the point that he was trying to make here.
He made it passionately.
And I wanna watch more.
Let's take a look.
>> Enough.
There's 50 senators right now who refused to vote on HR8,
which is a background check rule that the house passed a couple of years ago,
it's been sitting there for two years.
And there's a reason they won't vote on it, to hold onto power.
So I ask you, Mitch McConnell asked all of you senators who refused to
do anything about the violence and school shootings and supermarket shootings.
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 church goers?
Because that's what it looks like.
You realize that 90% of Americans regardless of political party want
background checks, universal background check.
90% of us, we are being held hostage by 50 senators in
Washington who refused to even put it to a vote.
Despite what we, the American people want,
they won't vote on it because they wanna hold onto their own power.
It's pathetic.
I've had enough.
>> Now look.
I thought that what he had to say was important.
It's especially important to talk about these things in venues or
in environments where you typically don't discuss it, right?
I mean, you have all these reporters, they're sports reporters thinking that
he's going to comment on this upcoming game and
he used it as an opportunity to voice an incredibly important opinion about what's
transpiring in this country with gun violence and mass shootings.
But it's not just 50 senators.
And I think it's important that he understands that.
Now make no mistake, republican lawmakers will continue to block any
effort to pass just common sense gun legislation, right?
Simple things like, hey,
maybe we should reconsider things like high capacity magazines.
It doesn't mean you're banning guns.
People can still get their guns.
Whether it's for hunting, self defense, whatever it is.
Whatever reason law abiding citizens want guns, okay?
But maybe we should reconsider.
I don't know.
Does it really make sense for an 18 year old to have possession
of these high capacity magazines or these assault weapons?
Does that make sense?
And look, he is a coach, he's the coach of the warriors,
legislating is not in his wheelhouse.
He's an American who has an opinion and he's sharing it.
But what I found so fascinating was that an actual
politician just kind of said what he had to say.
Although he did so in a much more calm, sleepy way, no passion.
And when a politician tells us, when are we gonna do something?
I think the only real response should be, when are you gonna do something?
Let's hear from Joe Biden.
>> Scripture says, Jill and I have talked about this
in different context in another context,
the Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
So many crushed spirits.
So tonight, I asked the nation to pray for them, give the parents and
siblings the strength in the darkness they feel right now.
As a nation, we have to ask when in God's name,
are we gonna stand up to the gun lobby?
When in God's name?
We do, we all know in our gut needs to be done.
And the gun manufacturers have spent two decades
aggressively marking assault weapons which make them the most and largest profit.
For God's sake, we have to have the courage to stand up to the industry.
>> I don't know, Biden.
I mean, you tell me.
You're the President of the United States.
When are we gonna stand up?
By the way, we is a weird way of putting it.
When are you gonna stand up to the gun lobby?
And going back to what Kerr said earlier when he mentioned 50 senators
blocking efforts to pass gun legislation, it's not 50.
Joe mentioned just today.
I was like, yeah, I don't really understand why we can't pass like some
common sense like gun reform stuff kinda, I don't understand.
By the way, I'm not willing to do away with the legislative filibuster.
We know mansion, a democrat who blocked social spending,
who blocks everything that would actually benefit the lives of Americans and
by the way, his own constituents.
You see the legislative filibuster for senators, especially democratic senators,
is like the most convenient excuse of all time.
They would never do away with it.
So when you are dealing with a system that's set up in such a way where you
would need 60 out of 100 senators rather than a simple majority to
pass any legislation, well,
the Senate just ends up being a chamber of Congress where everything goes to die,
unless it's more funding for the military and defense contractors.
That will pass really easily.
But that's the priority, right?
That's what this country represents, right?
This is the country that has branded itself the country of death.
That is what they do.
So when Joe Biden stands there and says, when are we gonna do something?
When are you gonna do something?
You're the president.
Why aren't you naming names?
You're really playing this unity game right now?
Why aren't you calling out the very people who are standing in the way of literally
saving lives in the country?
When are we gonna do something?
He says.
Can you imagine the most powerful man in the world asking Americans,
when are we gonna do something?
When is someone gonna stand up to the gun lobby?
I don't know Joe.
Why did you want to be president?
To take naps in the middle of the day?
It is pathetic even when it comes to rhetoric.
An NBA coach like outperforms the president of the United States.
And it's also pathetic that the president of the United States asks the same
questions that an NBA coach asks.
You should have the answers Biden.
But he doesn't.