Steve Kerr on mass shootings: ‘It was just devastating’

NEW YORK — In addition to coaching the Warriors to three NBA titles, Steve Kerr has become a leading voice for gun reform in the United States. After almost every mass shooting, he is asked for his reaction.

“It was just devastating,” Kerr said when asked how he is processing the news that an anti-Semite carried out the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history, killing 11 people inside a Pittsburgh synagogue Saturday. “I just expect it now, and that’s the sad thing.

“I remember an interview with a student after the Santa Fe (High School) shooting in Texas. It was a 14-year-old girl, and she was asked, ‘Did this shock you?’ And she said, ‘No, I kind of expected that this would happen to us at our school at some point.