Gabe Kapler: ‘I don’t plan on coming out for the anthem going forward until I feel higher about the direction of our nation’

Talking within the dugout of the Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati, Ohio, Kapler said, "I do not plan on popping out for the anthem going ahead till I feel better about the path of our country."

"We weren't given bravery, and we aren't free. The police on the scene put a mom in handcuffs as she begged them to go in and save her children. They blocked dad and mom attempting to prepare to cost in to stop the shooter, together with a father who discovered his daughter was murdered while he argued with the cops. We aren't free when politicians decide that the lobbyist and gun industries are more essential than our children's freedom to go to school without having bulletproof backpacks and active shooter drills," Kapler wrote.

Later, Kapler wrote about his disillusionment with what he known as "the dearth of delivery of the promise of what our national anthem represents."

"I'm not okay with the state of this country. I want I hadn't let my discomfort compromise my integrity. I wish that I may have demonstrated what I learned from my dad, that if you're dissatisfied along with your country, you let or not it's known by way of protest. The home of the brave should encourage this."

Kerr refused to discuss basketball forward of Recreation 4 of the Warriors' collection against the Dallas Mavericks, as an alternative raising his voice as he railed against gun violence within the wake of Tuesday's shooting.

"Within the final 10 days, we've had aged Black individuals killed in a grocery store in Buffalo, we've had Asian churchgoers killed in Southern California, now we have now children murdered at college," Kerr informed reporters initially of the press convention.

"When are we going to do something? I'm tired. I am so uninterested in getting up here and providing condolences to the devastated families that are on the market ... I'm tired of the moments of silence. Enough."