LeBron James supports 'March for Our Lives,' then video from his past comes out
LeBron James continues to get more and more involved with political issues.
Last year, the NBA superstar called President Donald Trump a “bum” and said Trump made hatred “fashionable again.”
Hate has always existed in America. Yes we know that but Donald Trump just made it fashionable again! Statues has nothing to do with us now!
— LeBron James (@KingJames) August 15, 2017
On MLK Day, he told reporters, “The guy in control has given people and racism, and negative racism, an opportunity to be out and outspoken without fear.”
After LeBron declared that Trump doesn’t “give a f— about the people” in a video last month, some said he should stop making provocative political statements.
“I will definitely not do that,” James responded. “I mean too much to society.”
The latest political cause he’s embracing is gun control.
In the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in which 17 people were killed, James was outspoken on the issue.
“We’ve seen these schools and these tragedies happen in America and there’s been no change to gun control,” he told reporters. “I don’t have the answer to this. But we have to do something about it.”
During Saturday’s “March for Our Lives” rally to demand stricter gun laws, James voiced his support for the demonstrators on Twitter.
#MarchForOurLives Salute the youth making a REAL impact!! ❤️❤️
— LeBron James (@KingJames) March 24, 2018
He offered a “salute” to the young protesters, who want to ban popular semiautomatic weapons and “high-capacity” magazines.
But James himself emptied some magazines just a few years ago, as Breitbart’s AWR Hawkins pointed out.
On New Year’s Eve in 2013, he visited the Lock & Load Miami shooting range and seemed to have a blast firing fully automatic weapons.
James and his wife, Savannah, rang in the New Year by renting an H&K MP5, popular with SWAT teams, and an M-249 SAW, widely used by the U.S. military.
LeBron has also shown a love for guns on the court, breaking out a celebration during the 2015 NBA Finals in which he pantomimed cocking a pistol and firing a round.
If James is going to become a gun control crusader, he might want to have fewer public displays of affection for firearms.
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