LeBron James Calls For Tougher Gun Laws After Oregon College Shooting
NBA star LeBron James is calling for stiffer gun laws in the wake of the Oregon campus shooting earlier this week that left ten people dead.
The four-time league MVP and two-time champion took to Twitter on Thursday to post, "C'mon man let's do and be better! Don't fall into the trap. This can't be only way. Accept more from yourselves."
Those remarks followed James' recent online comments about the shooting deaths of three young children in Cleveland, including a five-month-old girl.
Now himself the father of two young sons, James noted all the violence now truly gets to him, especially when it's directed toward children.
"There's no room for guns, first of all, but then for violence towards kids or anybody," he said. "But having kids of your own, I see the news go across my phone and I'm sitting there in front of my three kids, so it automatically just hit me."
James wasn't the only celebrity to express his disappointment and outrage with all the recent mayhem. Talk-show host Piers Morgan also took to Twitter to post, "This will keep happening until enough decent Americans rise up and say enough."
Both their reactions were in stark contract to former Florida governor and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush.
After the bloody and brazen shooting at an Oregon community college also left several others injured, Bush told reporters "stuff happens" in arguing that no changes need to be made to current gun laws.
"Things happen all the time," he later added. "A child drowns in a pool and the impulse is to pass a law that puts fencing around a pool. ... The cumulative effect of this is that in some cases, you don't solve the problem by passing the law and you're imposing on large numbers of people burdens that make it harder for our economy to grow, make it harder to protect liberty."
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