Former US president Donald Trump was the goal of an assassination try on Saturday at a political rally and Workforce USA coach Steve Kerr and Steph Curry have spoken in regards to the stunning flip of occasions.
Workforce USA are in United Arab Emirates making ready for the Paris Olympics and Kerr was fast to sentence the actions taken in opposition to Trump as soon as he and the workforce discovered of the information on Sunday morning.
“It’s such a demoralizing day for our nation, and it’s one more instance of not solely our political division but in addition gun tradition,” Kerr mentioned. “A 20-year-old with an AR-15 attempting to shoot the previous president. It’s onerous to course of every thing, and it’s scary to consider the place this goes due to the problems that exist already within the nation. So this can be a horrible day.
“You think about [the victims’] household and mates at the moment and what they’re feeling, and thank God Trump wasn’t [critically wounded],” Kerr mentioned.
He added, “This can be a time the place we really feel very proud to signify our nation sporting USA on our chest, competing within the Olympics. We’ve talked to the gamers about how vital it’s to point out the most effective model of us as human beings to signify our nation in a respectful, dignified method. It makes you need to try this much more so, as a result of that is actually shameful for us to take a seat right here and take into consideration what occurred and what’s occurring in our nation.”
One among Workforce USA’s star gamers, Curry, additionally addressed the incident and spoke in regards to the regarding state of gun management within the USA as a complete.
“It’s clearly a really unhappy time on the whole,” Curry mentioned. “All of the conversations across the election and the state of politics in our nation, after which you’ve gotten a state of affairs like this, which simply [evokes] a whole lot of feelings round issues that we have to right as a individuals.
“Clearly, gun management initially, as a result of the truth that that’s even attainable for someone to have an assault like that. However simply extra so that you need to [see] positivity and hope. It sounds tacky, however it’s actual. That’s when our nation’s at its greatest, and it simply provides one other blemish to what’s occurring. So unhappy is simply the phrase.”
Workforce USA will keep within the Center East this week earlier than taking part in Olympic exhibition video games in opposition to Australia Monday and Serbia Wednesday.
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