After former President Donald Trump was shot by a would-be assassin with an AR-style rifle at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, Warriors and Team USA head coach Steve Kerr condemned the US’s “gun culture.”
“It’s hard to process everything, and it’s scary to think about where this goes because of the issues that already exist in the country,” he told ESPN’s Brian Windhorst on Sunday in Abu Dhabi, where he was preparing the team for the Paris Olympics. “This is a terrible day.”
Kerr, whose father was assassinated in 1984 while serving as the president of American University in Beirut, has been a longtime advocate for gun violence prevention. He offered an emotional plea to end gun violence following a 2022 shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas and spoke to students about violence prevention with Vice President Kamala Harris earlier this spring.
Trump, who appeared to be shot in the ear, is “fine,” according to his campaign. Two attendees were critically injured, and a third has died. The shooter, a 20-year-old man from Pennsylvania, was also killed.