As a diminutive sharpshooter, with size being congruent to prodigious deities of the professional basketball, Steve Kerr made his fortune rivaling a mosquito like pest tantalizing fans with ICBM missiles burning the net from long range, while annoying rival followers with a frantic persistence. Existing in a supplementary role in the grand shadow cast by the legendary Michael Jordan, the guard accrued championship trophies while freely sharing the narrative in claiming to be a gun violence survivor. While politics are a cumbersome dichotomy to sports and entertainment, and the tens of billions of dollars generated by the fans on a yearly basis, the despicable rhetoric originating from Kerr still persists today, even as the legacy coaching figurehead of the entire league. While one would think that the protocol of winning titles and being gifted a platform would dictate that perpetuating a diabolical rant to disarm law-abiding Americans is beyond taboo, the indifference stemming from the idealist coach of the Golden State Warriors suggests that certain people are oblivious to their own narcissistic tendencies, especially when attempting to adopt ideology customized towards special interests, yet not conducive to the greater good.
Kerr’s tragic past cannot be discounted, as his father was murdered by two gunman during a 1984 attack in Beirut, Lebanon, which can partially explain his extremist stance on firearms and incessant push for anti-gun legislation. However, like many fear-mongering leftists, his arrogance that he somehow knows what’s best for a citizen putting themselves in a position to practice self-defense, the sanctimonious mentality just adds to the unproductive noise of conjuring bureaucracy through inducing an emotional and illogical response to an issue that is forcibly misunderstood.
In the wake of the last week’s landmark Supreme Court gun rights ruling, the NBA champion coach attached his name to a form letter sent through email by the Brady Organization calling for gun control activists to unite, grab their credit cards, and form non-denominational prayer circles that may or may not include a gender neutral feline cosplay troupe demanding synthetic vaping catnip for all.
The Brady missive with all the legitimacy of Washington state Governor Jay Inlsee maintaining his Covid-19 emergency powers and ironclad grip over the state, while deliberately convoluting declarations and mandates, is not just an indictment of Kerr. The email message is blatantly full of unpatriotic elements, and is a glaring example of radicals using an incredulous narrative to stoke fabricated malaise within their base.
While the mistruths throughout the body of the message are prevalent, the call to action reads like a stereotypical pamphlet distributed on college campuses. The use of the words “truth” and “proven” make the following paragraph infuriating.
“The truth is that concealed carry is proven to increase gun violence. Yet even after the horrific school shooting in Uvalde, the NRA continued to push their guns everywhere agenda in order to keep their profits high. Now, with states greatly restricted in keeping concealed guns out of public spaces, who knows where people will bring their guns: public transit, crowded sidewalks, malls, and stores… Everywhere you don’t want them.”
Curiously, Kerr and his handlers, or vise versa, fail epically in recognizing that public transit, especially the sketchy subterranean catacombs hosting the subways of New York city, are not the safest spaces on the planet, or that criminals with bad intentions inhabiting this volatile domain could be armed. Instead, the Brady agenda is to compromise the self-defense response of law-abiding citizens. The veritable cherry on top of the whole message is that Kerr is framed as a victim, as once again gun prohibitionists play their dubious trump card in dramatizing what is construed by anti-Second Amendment activists as a debate.
While Kerr and colleagues continue to profit from fandom, the Democratically run cities where their teams play are seeing a decay in quality of life and perceptible rise in crime. As the leadership in Chicago, New York city, LA, Philadelphia, and San Francisco attempt to employ an abolitionist strategy in not prosecuting lower level crimes, and alienating police officers, the importance of reasonable resident legally possessing firearms is a crucial facet of increasing public safety. Yet, within the maelstrom of thefts, property damage, and violence, fans still brave the urban centers to attend games, spend money, and root for their teams, even though the powers that be ungraciously combine politics with sports in fostering an unsafe environment.
The irony that is lost on Kerr and other megalomaniacs within professional sports who share dreams of universal gun control, is that legions of armed personnel protect the athletic celebrity figures and coaching staffs from the very criminals who they enable and try to protect through an egregiously nebulous view in being so out of touch with reality. Once again in embracing an illogical imperative, guns are okay for some in protecting those who raise a championship trophy, but not for all, even though the masses print the money for the pros to persist.