Steve Kerr Thanks Gun Control Marchers, Encourages Fans to Vote

Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr thanked March for Our Lives supporters on Saturday and encouraged people to vote if they want to see gun control laws changed. 

Kerr, whose father, Malcolm, was assassinated in Beirut in 1984, has delivered that message often in the weeks following the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead. 

"It doesn't seem to matter to our government that children are being shot to death day after day in schools," Kerr told reporters on Feb. 14. "It's not enough apparently to move our leadership, our government, the people who are running this country to actually do anything. That's demoralizing.

"But we can do something about it. We can vote people in who actually have the courage to protect people's lives and not just bow down to the [National Rifle Association] because they've financed their campaign for them. ... Hopefully we can find enough people with courage to actually help our citizens remain safe and focus on the real safety issues, not building some stupid wall for billions of dollars that has nothing to do with our safety, but actually protecting us from what truly is dangerous, which is maniacs with semi-automatic weapons just slaughtering our children. It's disgusting."

Kerr also made an appearance at Newark Memorial High School in the Bay Area on March 12 and urged students to get out and vote when they have the opportunity. 

"I'm not here because I'm the Warriors coach. Actually I am, because I wouldn't have been invited. I'm here because I'm a citizen of this country and we're a democracy and when people say 'stick to sports,' 'stick to coaching,' that means nothing," he said, according to the Associated Press' Janie McCauley. "I feel like it's my responsibility to speak on something that's very important to me."