*(Clears throat) Ladies & Gentlemen Greg Popovich 5 time NBA Champion Coach

[underpants]

My ❤️ for Pops

Spurs' Gregg Popovich calls for gun control in U.S., criticizes lawmakers

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/36136201/spurs-gregg-popovich-calls-gun-control-us-criticizes-lawmakers

"I just wondered because we have a governor and lieutenant governor and an attorney general that made it easier to have more guns," Popovich said, referring to Texas politicians. "That was a response to our kids getting murdered. I just thought that was a little bit strange decision. It's just me, though."

"Well, since you asked, what would it take to budge those people? What would it take?" Popovich said. "I mean, we've got two young Black guys in Tennessee who just got railroaded by a bunch of people that I would bet down deep in their soul want to go back to Jim Crow. And what they just did is a good start. It's beyond comprehension. And what were they guilty of? They actually protested?


"I mean, I couldn't believe it, so I wrote this thing down, but Senator Marsha Blackburn, her comment after was, after the massacre, 'My office is in contact with federal, state and local officials and we stand ready to assist,''' Popovich read.

"In what?! They're dead!" Popovich shouted. "What are you going to assist with -- cleaning up their brains off the wall, wiping the blood off the schoolroom floor? What are you going to assist with?

"And then there's Governor Lee. I'm sorry to go on and on, but Bill Lee: 'I'm closely monitoring the tragic situation. Please join us in prayer.' What are you monitoring? They're dead! Children -- they're dead. When I pick up my 6- and 11-year-old grandkids at school, when I'm here at home, on the way it goes through my mind that I hope they're going to be OK."


Posting the rest and looking for video in a reply.

[underpants]

1. More

"You know, the greed of the gun lobbies and the manufacturers is obvious," Popovich said. "We all know that. Money talks, but the cowardice and the selfishness of the legislators who are so scared to death of being primaried and losing their job, losing their power, losing their salary -- you'd like to get each one of 'em in a room just one by one and say, 'What's more important to you? If you could vote for some good gun safety laws that most of the public agrees to, would you do that if it saved one kid? Or is your job and your money so important to you that you would say, screw the kid? What's, what's in your mind?'"

"So what will it take? Do we have to show it? Do we have to show that classroom?" Popovich said. "That's a pretty big step, right? That's just gross to think about. But do we need to show it, like the girl running with Napalm on her back? So they actually see that these parents couldn't even tell if it was their kid, that they had to go the DNA route. Will that wake up [U.S. Sen.] Josh Hawley, so he won't be running like this [raises his right fist] to the whatever they were, insurrectionists? I don't know what the next word would be.

"You know, these people, they think we're stupid -- Republican and Democratic alike. But they might be right because they get away with that crap. They tell us things about prayers and you know, their offices are monitoring this stuff, like I said. Get away from me. Stop all the bulls---. Stop talking down to us. We're not stupid, but they will do it to keep their jobs."

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11. They are "so scared to death of being primaried and losing their job"

The flip side of that coin would be voters having the backs of legislators who vote in favor of reasonable regulation of firearms, just like the Second Amendment says. But though Popovich didn't specify, you and I both know he's talking about Republican legislators. Which means it's up to Republican voters to protect their own. Since nothing has been done to this point, I don't feel any obligation to protect Republican legislators from their own fanatical voters. They've been cultivating this dilemma for decades. We've warned them for years this was a bad path, but they sneered, they scoffed, they taunted, they exulted in every defeat we suffered. And they stubbornly stayed on their path as the bodies piled up and piled up.

Fuck 'em. I'm done with trying to change hearts and minds. We have a solid majority of voters behind us. Let's act like we win this issue, and start getting some sanity back in our society.

[NoMoreRepugs]

2. Coach Pop has always been a voice of reason - no BS.

[underpants]

3. Ted Cruz is up for reelection in 2024

Just saying.

[NoMoreRepugs]

14. That would be interesting. Just sayin'.

[chicoescuela]

8. 100% true. Sad his teams have been so poor the last few years. Steve Kerr

coach of the Dubs also is voice of reason and for gun control.

[Upthevibe]

4. Kick. n/t

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. Coach P is amazing

[republianmushroom]

6. No coach it is not just you.

These people are foolish. I like you assessment of them.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

7. k&r

[BOSSHOG]

9. What the hell does murdering children in schools have to do with

Being necessary for the security of a free state? Ya know, constitutional stuff.

Do limp dicks need AR 15s? Asking for a proctologist.

[JETTBHEART]

10. POP video

Link to tweet

[underpants]

15. Thank you.

❤️

[marieo1]

12. Total Agreement

Oh, Mr. Popovich, I so agree with you. I'm an NBA fan and I have watched you for years. What can we do to stop the gun violence? I have wondered many times. It seems like the more murders there are the more they approve of everyone having the guns. I do not understand at all.

[crickets]

13. 💙

[TlalocW]

16. And he's a a hell of a juggler