This past month has seen many states passing laws preventing "trans" athletes from competing in sports with the gender opposite to their biological sex. This past month has also seen several mass shootings. The one sports show I watch fairly regularly is First Take on ESPN. As I am watching today they were discussing the Ja Morant situation. For those who may not know this player had an incident in a Denver strip club waving a gun around while "making it rain." He was suspended. Well last week a video was on Tik Tok with him riding in a car once again flashing a firearm. Well Steven A Smith went off about politicians sending Christmas cards holding AR-15's, the mass shootings and half of America wanting to reelect Donald Trump, or as he said "People wanting to reelect a guy who incited and insurrection, was impeached twice and is in the pocket of the gun lobby." So here is my question, why the fuck should I care what a sports commentator says about gun laws in America? I watch the show for sports analysis, not political rants. But Steven A is notorious for using the sports platform to push his pro-BLM, anti-white and anti-conservative political agenda. I realize ESPN is most likely Liberal or left leaning as most commentators who lean right are not employed for long.
Now to address his comments. An American citizen or politician has a Constitutionally granted right to bear arms. So I have no issue with the Christmas cards. Secondly there was no insurrection incited by Trump on Jan 6 as his tweets from that day and recently released videos have shown. And finally blaming the mass shooting on the availability of guns is ridiculous. Banning guns from law abiding citizens does not prevent criminals from getting guns, it simply creates more innocent victims. Most mass shootings take place in "Gun Free" zones. And one of the last mass shooters avoided their first target due to it being "too secure." For all the idiots claiming removing the guns removes the violence and we should look at countries which have bans in place I am here to tell you, yes "gun" violence is less of course but the other forms of violence, aka knives, blunt weapons, etc., are way up. Most of all once citizens give up any Constitutional rights they will never get them back.
So what is the solution to mass shootings and gun violence? For me it is a simple solution, freedom to own guns, armed security in schools and other public places, and teaching respect for firearms and life. If those things were done we would see a drastic reduction in mass shootings and the like. A bad guy is less likely to shoot people if most people are educated and armed. They are less likely to risk their own lives if they know at shot 1 they will be neutralized. But back to my original thought, leave my damn sports alone. Sports are one way people can escape from the political crap they are bombarded with every day. Let people have a simple pleasure and just enjoy sports.
