“I hate guns,”

[Superstreet]

Saints coach blasts gun laws after death of former player

Less than three days after his former player was shot to death, New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton publicly blasted gun laws in Louisiana and the United States.

“I hate guns,” he told USA Today in a phone interview. “I find myself leaning to the right on some issues. But on this issue, I can’t wrap my brain around it.”

Payton, who helped lead the state’s beloved Saints to their first Super Bowl in 2010, knows that his comments may make him unpopular in Louisiana.

His response?

“So be it.”

“I’ve heard people argue that everybody needs a gun,” he said. “That’s madness. I know there are many kids who grow up in a” hunting environment. I get that. But there are places, like England, where even the cops don’t have guns.”

Smith, 34, was shot in a traffic altercation late Saturday evening in New Orleans’ Lower Garden District. He died at the scene.

Cardell Hayes has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with Smith’s killing.

Police say after an accident, Smith and Hayes “exchanged words” before Hayes shot the former Saints defensive end.

However Hayes’ attorney says that he was not the aggressor in the conflict.

Hayes called 911 before the shooting, secured a witness who was leaving the scene, and remained at the scene after the shooting until authorities arrived, attorney John Fuller said.

“Tell me if that’s the behavior that’s consistent with someone who’s an animal out here looking for blood,” he said. “His actions are totally consistent with someone that is complying with a police investigation.”

Smith had a decorated collegiate and professional football career.

He won a national championship while at Ohio State and was on the Saints’ only Super Bowl-winning team. He led the team in sacks during the regular season that year.

His wife, Racquel, was shot in the leg and is expected to survive. The pair had three children: William, Lisa Mya and Wynter Chase.

By Joshua Berlinger, CNN

CNN’s Eliott McLaughlin contributed to this report.


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[RedLS1GTO]

Reading the article it sounds to me like the more appropriate comment would be "I hate SUVs"

These idiots were apparently pretty hellbent on killing each other 1 way or another. This is the gun's fault about as much as it's the fault of the cars.

...Hayes called 911 while chasing another vehicle after a hit-and-run.

the Hummer caught up to Smith’s SUV and smashed into it from behind. The impact sent Smith's vehicle careening into a third vehicle, according to New Orleans police.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.2597339

[6spdC6]

Just another case of BLM! here! Bullshit Lies Matter
If this X player was not such a well know person a incident like this if it made the news at all would be on the back page.

If that coach wants to go after the REAL cause of Black on Black violence it just the now normal way the ghetto blacks respond to a situation. Many generations of living on welfare has made a serious mind set!

[DAB]

gun owners are football fans too coach. they can easily stop being fans and spend their sunday at the range.

[VatorMan]

The whole story is fishy and Sean Payton should quit the Saints and coach for the Redskins. That way he can live in MontCo MD-Liberal heaven.

[RedLS1GTO]

Originally Posted by 6spdC6

If that coach wants to go after the REAL cause of Black on Black violence it just the now normal way the ghetto blacks respond to a situation. Many generations of living on welfare has made a serious mind set!

You mean that a hit and run followed by chasing the other guy down, ramming him into parked cars and pedestrians, hopping out and trying to fight isn't how that should have been handled?

But yea... guns are bad m'kay.

[Mike Mercury]

[Aerovette]

They can put a man on the moon, but they can't develop a gun that requires a PERSON to pull the trigger. All these guns going off without any people being responsible for it, is just ludicrous. We need guns that will not fire themselves.

[Aerovette]

Originally Posted by TxAg

And let's not forget those knives out there stabbing random people.

I had one try to get me the other day. A narrow escape. I put it in the drawer in time out until it can learn to behave.