In the aftermath of the Las Vegas mass shooting by home grown terrorist Stephen Paddock, New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton continues to denounce current gun policies calling them “flawed.
Speaking to the media on Tuesday, Payton raised the subject prior to speaking publicly by tweeting a statistic stating that more Americans have been killed in the U.S. by guns (including suicides) since 1968 than in all wars in the country’s history combined according to ESPN.com.
“It was very simple,” Payton said of his Tuesday tweet. “I just think, let’s start from this standpoint: The current protocol is not working. The current system’s not working. And the madness is when you go years and years and years and say, ‘Well …’
“So the current policies and thoughts are flawed. And I believe this in my heart: We as a society owe it to our children, and we have to be better that way. And I made my statements clear after the death of Will Smith. And these things come up and they come up, and you try to draw parallels throughout our world. And, look, it’s hard to find other countries like that. And here we are as educated and smart and forward-thinking as we think we are, and yet it’s broken and it’s obvious.”
Payton’s latest comments come after his open criticism of the Trump administration’s treatment of players protesting during the National Anthem and the shooting death last year of former Saints player Will Smith.