assassination of\u00a0Charlie Kirk<\/a>\u00a0hit close to home for Oregon football head coach Dan Lanning, who recently found out that Kirk was a fan of Lanning’s own Ducks.<\/p>\nLanning offered his condolences to Kirk’s wife, Erika, and their two children following their\u00a034-14 victory\u00a0over Northwestern on Saturday<\/p>\n
\n.But in a prolonged answer regarding the current culture of the United States, Lanning implored Americans to look at his own locker room, saying, “the people in this world can learn a lot from [it].”<\/p>\n
“You walk in that locker room, you got guys of different races, guys of different backgrounds, different religions, and you got a team that loves each other. Tons of differences. Where they come from, what they deal with, and ultimately you got a team that loves each other, and I think we\u2019re missing some of that in our country,” Lanning said.<\/p>\n
Lanning has been outspoken about gun violence before, and he made his voice heard again on Saturday, condemning the “evil” that led to Kirk’s assassination as well as children’s shooting deaths.<\/p>\n
\n“I recently found out Charlie Kirk was an Oregon fan, right? I didn’t know that. I hurt for his wife, Erika, and their kids. That sort of evil should never exist in our country, and that’s what it is \u2014 evil. I remember having to explain that to my family, right? I remember sitting down my kids and explaining what happened, and they’re talking about people talking about it at school. And it’s just sad, right?” Lanning said.<\/p>\n
“But it’s just as sad \u2014 every day it seems like we deal with some sort of violence that’s going on in our country, whether it’s school kids in Colorado or kids in Minnesota at churches. I mean, life matters, and I think we’ve lost sight of that. But I just wish the world could learn a little bit of something from our locker room, because we got a bunch of people with differences, and what you got in there is a bunch people there.”<\/p>\n
Lanning also had a powerful message to those who disagreed with him on political and social issues.<\/p>\n
\n“Just know this \u2014 I love you. I absolutely love you, right? And life matters. And there\u2019s no way that Charlie should experience, that his family should experience, there\u2019s no way that that evil should exist in this world.”<\/p>\n
Lanning then called for gun reform for “sick people” and more protection for children at schools.<\/p>\n
“And we have to continue to identify and point it out and make sure that it\u2019s absolutely evil. There\u2019s no reason in the world that our kids, that we should be worried about sending our kids to school. It\u2019s our most valuable commodity in the world. They should be protected. And the reality is, there\u2019s just not a lot of common sense on both sides.”<\/p>\n
\n“Common sense says, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s mental health, right?\u2019 Common sense says, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s guns.\u2019 You know what? It\u2019s both. Let\u2019s have some common sense. Our kids should be the most protected thing in the world, right? They should have armed guards at every school, because there\u2019s sick people, there\u2019s sick people in this world, right? And on top of that, sick people need help, and it should be really hard for a sick person to have a gun.”<\/p>\n
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