After Syracuse University’s Jim Boeheim became only the third Division I men’s college basketball coach to win 900 games on Monday, the hall of famer emerged as the latest individual to use his prominent platform to call for more stringent restrictions on guns in the wake of last week’s massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn.
“If we cannot get the people who represent us to do something about firearms, we are a sad, sad society,” Boeheim said during a press conference following his team’s 72-68 win over Detroit. “If one person in this world, the NRA president, anybody, can tell me why we need assault weapons with 30 shots — this is our fault if we don’t go out there and do something about this. If we can’t get this thing done, I don’t know what kind of country we have.”
