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Pop still working on that inspirational extra curricular segment to cap off his 30 for 30 video.
MILWAUKEE -- The San Antonio Spurs were in Milwaukee on Sunday for an afternoon matchup with the Milwaukee Bucks. Before the game, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich -- no stranger to voicing his opinions on the current political and social issues -- shared his thoughts on the student-led marches against gun violence that took place across the country on Saturday.
Popovich was asked specifically about what he thought the marches meant for the future of the country, but expounded further on the need for the country to reflect, and the lack of leadership from current politicians.
Popovich's full response:
Well, the future of the country is a pretty big thing. There's not one event that is going to signal what it's going to be like in the future. But I can tell you that I'm sure most everybody is going to be unbelievably proud and excited about those students and what they've done. Because our politicians have certainly sat on their thumbs and just hidden. To most, it's almost like a dereliction of duty to watch all these people get killed with guns -- in so many different ways, whether it's nightclubs, or schools, or cities. And it seems that the power and the money are more important than the lives. So to see these teenagers demand this, it takes you back.
You think about it, the civil rights movement didn't flip or change until people saw things on TV. They saw policemen with fire hoses and dogs biting old black men and women, people being beaten with sticks. Then you get to the Vietnam War, and we're in it forever, and then what happens? Film starts coming back with arms and legs blown off and coffins, and I can still remember the little girl who was napalmed running down the road. Things change when that happens. And in this one, in this situation, these students are the same way. Images are important. Obviously you can't put an image on TV of what happened in that classroom, that would be pretty horrifying.
But if you just sit for a moment and imagine those bullets going through those bodies, and what those bodies might have looked like afterwards, how can the president of the country talk about all the things he's going to do, and then go have lunch with the NRA and change it? It's just cowardice. A real leader would have been in Washington D.C. this weekend, not at his penthouse at Mar-a-Lago. He would have had the decency to meet with a group, to see what's going on, and how important it is, and how important our children should be to us. So for all those politicians involved, it's just a dereliction of duty.
They can talk about the age limit, and background checks and all that, but the real discussion is what kind of a country, what kind of a culture do we want? You go back and investigate the second amendment. What does it really mean today? What are we willing to give up for the safety of our children. The people in power don't want to talk about that. The fact that our president left town, is a real indication of how much he really cares about anything other than feeding his insatiable ego.
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/s...esident-trump/
Pop still working on that inspirational extra curricular segment to cap off his 30 for 30 video.
If peeps feel so strongly about this, they should boycott Pop and the Spurs, tbh... and their advertisers... stop eating Whataburger... for a week maybe... what? it's not happening? crofl...
People aren't going to walk away while legacies like Parker and Manu are still going hard. After that if Pop runs his mouth people are not gonna feel so emotionally invested and will consider their other options.
I wonder what Poop has to say about this?
That act didn't and wouldn't prevent the moar guns you want in schools tbh.
These rallies are far left stunts like the tea party rallies a few years ago during Obama’s years. Don’t be fooled. They are movements to get Democrats in control of Congress so they can ignore gun control just like they did under Obama with a super majority and the ability to pass whatever they wanted. They only care about this issue as a means of demonizing the other side. It’s like all those tea party candidates that ran on repealing Obamacare, but once given the presidency and both houses of Congress, they had no replacement plan and no repeal. These “movements” mean nothing.
Earth to OP -- The people who committed the mass shootings broke the law. The gun-free zone law didn't cause the shooting, it actually could have prevented it had the shooter been arrested for possessing weapons in a gun-free zone.
This is like passing a law requiring drivers to wear seatbelts and then complaining that 92% of fatal accidents occur on roads where drivers are required to wear seatbelts.
Or to appeal to a conservative (which you appear to be), it's like passing a law allowing the police to stop and frisk people in a bad high-crime part of town and then complaining that 92% of crime occurs in said bad part of town. No conservative would argue that the high crime rate is a result of stop and frisk, but rather stop and risk is a reaction to the high crime rate.
Similarly, gun-free zones are a reaction to mass shootings not a cause of them.
As a player/employee, it's gotta be frustrating to have your coach/boss constantly running his mouth about politics on the company dime.
The march itself wasn't targeting specific firearms. It was a blanket "get rid of all guns" protest. Which is just asinine. The students were spouting off against the "out-datedness of the U.S. Cons ution" (quoted verbatim) - which is ironic, considering they were publically availing their own Cons utionally protected free-speech right, and their right to "peaceable assembly" - which not all nations grant.
The People have a right to defend themselves against any enemy, foreign or domestic. And the government cannot possibly provide that protection no matter how well equipped our local law enforcement departments may be across the country. We cannot simply depend on them. The best response times at 4-5 minutes place law enforcement a step behind those perpetrating crimes - which is why citizens need to be empowered to protect themselves.
We have laws against MURDER. But people think that more laws are magically going to change the hearts of those who've decided to take human lives? They are delusional. If the one law which in many states can carry the penalty of death is ignored by the perpetrators of "mass shooting events" what makes the protesters think that access to particular weapons will somehow be an effective deterrent? Again delusional. Didn't the Virginia Tech shooter kill over 30 students with hand guns alone (not "assault riffles")? Here recently a perp in China stabbed 29 people to death and left dozens more injured. Back in 2014 another stabbing spree in said country left 35 people dead and 143 injured. How many driving massacres have taken place across Europe over the past decade (and here in NYC recently)? The point is that someone bent on killing will do so NO MATTER WHAT THE LAW STATES. Gun control advocates are too full of their own baloney and knee-deep in socialist excrement to accept the truth. People are inherently "corrupt" and "government authorities" are not some benevolent force of good - nor can we depend on them for our own protection.
But somehow Popovich is supposed to be a "voice of reason" on the matter? The guy who excoriates other human beings on national TV, while his face turns blood red, as he yells obscenities at them? That Pop? Yeah. Sure.
Last edited by Phenomanul; 03-27-2018 at 09:09 AM.
I hope President Trump kicks Pop off the US Olympic team. He is a disgrace to the nation.
You misunderstand the point of gun control laws -- they don't attempt to magically change potential murders into nice people. Gun laws seek to reduce the availability of guns to such people.
According to all statistical evidence, the less guns in circulation, the less mass shootings. After one such mass shooting, Australia passed laws to reduce the number of guns in Australia (including "buying back" guns and destroying them). Australia's murder rate went down dramatically.
The simple truth is that every other Western country has less guns in circulation than the US and every other Western country has a lower murder rate than the US.
Tell that to the people in those same countries who were then subsequently murdered by use of other weapons. I will question any statistics that serve only to empower socialist agendas - the very same Marxist and totalitarian systems which killed over 100 million people over the past 120 years.
On the second point, BECAUSE of the proliferation of guns - the government can't simply say "ok everyone turn in your high capacity riffles, and other 'assault-style' weapons" because criminals don't heed the law anyways. All such laws would do is disarm law-abiding citizens and effectively give criminals an advantage on the streets.
If a criminal comes to my house, I have a right to protect my loved ones as best I see fit. And you nor anyone else (especially not the Tide-pod eating crowd) will change how I feel about that. It's not personal.
I would suggest a lengthy filibuster about Marxism.
gun control has worked great across the border in Mexico...the government takes care of its people, and there is absolutely no gun violence in Mexico.
Well they use American guns which ain't hard to get
Pop is exactly right and has been for a long time.
There you go bringing logic to a debate about ideals and not practicality. NRA Acts like any gun reform is the beginning of the end ...i fully support a ban on AR's ...if you can't protect yourself or your family with a hunting rifle, shotgun and handgun ...you are a lousy shot and or a pussy ...
Them idiots wouldn't even give up their backpacks for safety and they want the nation to give up their 2nd Amendment rights?
Are we giving up alcohol to prevent the thousands of drunk driving accidents and 1/3 of all violent crime? No, because "I like wine", and "the team employs a drunk driver". This is real rich coming from a team that employs a drunk driver to all of a sudden be concerned about "safety".
Should we go through the list of all the dangerous things in our lives that we can get rid of for safety? Or should jump right to the crux and ask the nation to wear body cams for safety? Imagine all the lives you can save if everyone wore body cams and all you have to give up is your privacy. Safety is more important than your privacy, right?
Not really
I applaud Pop for having the courage and morality to speak the obvious truth which too many Americans are dumb and deaf to.
Ar15 is just a semi auto rifle.There you go bringing logic to a debate about ideals and not practicality. NRA Acts like any gun reform is the beginning of the end ...i fully support a ban on AR's ...if you can't protect yourself or your family with a hunting rifle, shotgun and handgun ...you are a lousy shot and or a pussy ...
Not really
The right to own guns is not entirely for regular occurrences like that.There you go bringing logic to a debate about ideals and not practicality. NRA Acts like any gun reform is the beginning of the end ...i fully support a ban on AR's ...if you can't protect yourself or your family with a hunting rifle, shotgun and handgun ...you are a lousy shot and or a pussy ...
Laws like that don't change but take rights away from people.
"I wished the National Rifle Association would stop blocking common-sense gun-control reforms such as banning assault weapons, restricting silencers, shrinking magazine sizes and all the other measures that could make guns less deadly."
"Then, my colleagues and I at FiveThirtyEight spent three months analyzing all 33,000 lives ended by guns each year in the United States, and I wound up frustrated in a whole new way. We looked at what interventions might have saved those people, and the case for the policies I’d lobbied for crumbled when I examined the evidence. "
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-used-to-think-gun-control-was-the-answer-my-research-told-me-otherwise/2017/10/03/d33edca6-a851-11e7-92d1-58c702d2d975_story.html?utm_term=.b64e5ead5c37
So yeah let's not give up our rights for ineffective policies. Fighting against that makes you a "pussy". Go fight for a ban on alcohol and you'll save many more lives than a ban on AR's.
Finally, since they are ineffective policies and the position that leads one to argue to take away guns is based on selfish reasons they will not stop there.
Get a glimpse of you next brainwashed generation.
This is the direction your gun reform is going. Don't expect people to bend over for ineffective policies.
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