Gabe Kapler: ‘I don’t plan on popping out for the anthem going forward till I feel higher about the direction of our nation’

Speaking within the dugout of the Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati, Ohio, Kapler stated, "I don't plan on coming out for the anthem going ahead until I really feel better about the route of our nation."

"We weren't given bravery, and we aren't free. The police on the scene put a mother in handcuffs as she begged them to go in and save her children. They blocked mother and father trying to prepare to cost in to stop the shooter, including a father who discovered his daughter was murdered whereas he argued with the cops. We aren't free when politicians resolve that the lobbyist and gun industries are extra essential than our kids's freedom to go to high school with no need bulletproof backpacks and lively shooter drills," Kapler wrote.

Later, Kapler wrote about his disillusionment with what he referred to as "the lack of delivery of the promise of what our nationwide anthem represents."

"I am not okay with the state of this nation. I want I hadn't let my discomfort compromise my integrity. I wish that I could have demonstrated what I realized from my dad, that when you're dissatisfied with your country, you let it be identified by protest. The house of the brave ought to encourage this."

Kerr refused to discuss basketball forward of Game 4 of the Warriors' sequence towards the Dallas Mavericks, instead elevating his voice as he railed against gun violence within the wake of Tuesday's shooting.

"Within the final 10 days, we've had elderly Black folks killed in a supermarket in Buffalo, we have had Asian churchgoers killed in Southern California, now now we have children murdered in school," Kerr told reporters initially of the press conference.

"When are we going to do one thing? I am tired. I'm so bored with getting up right here and offering condolences to the devastated families which can be out there ... I am bored with the moments of silence. Sufficient."