He used the last pre-game press conference of the season to talk about how he feels the country needs stricter gun control laws. He spoke before his team took the court against the Dallas Mavericks.
In his wide-ranging speech, Popovich took on lawmakers in Tennessee for the expulsion of two state house members in that state. He went after them for doing this and criticized the state for no longer being a true Democracy in his view.
He then asked any of the reporters if they were carrying a gun at that time.
April 12, 2023
ESPN reports that Popovich said: “I just wondered because we have a governor and lieutenant governor and an attorney general that made it easier to have more guns,” and “That was a response to our kids getting murdered. I just thought that was a little bit strange decision. It’s just me, though.”
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He continued, saying, “Well since you guys asked, what would it take to budge those people? What would it take?”
He followed this up by speaking about an essay he wrote about Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, the two Democrats who were expelled from their seats in Tennessee.
He said: “I mean, we’ve got two young Black guys in Tennessee who just got railroaded by a bunch of people that I would bet down deep in their soul want to go back to Jim Crow,” and he continued, “And what they just did is a good start. It’s beyond comprehension. And what were they guilty of? They actually protested?”
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He finally continued by saying:
“Those [Tennessee Republican] legislators called those kids that were protesting insurrectionists. That’s hard to believe in America. But America ain’t what we thought America was. It’s changed. So, if those kids are insurrectionists, what were the people on January 6? What do we call them? What’s the next step or word or level of violence after insurrectionists? I don’t know what it is. What will it take?”
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In particular, the coach had problems with how Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Gov. Bill Lee responded to the shooting in Nashville. He mocked their calls for prayers and came to the city’s aid.
He claimed that there was nothing left that they could do at this point. He said it was already done, and they needed to take real legislative action against guns if they genuinely wanted to do something about gun violence.
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