OAKLAND -- Warriors Coach Steve Kerr, whose father Malcolm Kerr was assassinated in 1984 by gunmen in Lebanon, on Friday strongly endorsed background checks on gun purchases, saying "our government is insane" for failing to adopt such measures.
Kerr's remarks came at the end of a podcast with Bay Area News Group columnist Tim Kawakami. As Kawakami thanked him for appearing on "The TK Show," Kerr asked to speak on one more topic. "As a basketball coach I don't often get political, but if you don't mind, I just want to say, when 90 percent of our country wants background checks on gun purchases, and we've got our Senate and our House not only voting it down, but using the Bill of Rights as a reason for people to have rights to carry these automatic weapons, and we're getting people murdered every day at an alarming rate.