White House responds to Sean Payton’s anti-gun plea

White House responds to Sean Payton’s anti-gun plea

White House responds to Sean Payton’s anti-gun plea, The annihilation of above Saints arresting end Will Smith has annoyed up the franchise, the New Orleans association and the absolute NFL. Now the White House is demography notice.

Saints drillmaster Sean Payton offered an animated appeal for gun ascendancy Monday, adage he "hates guns," and the angle everybody needs a gun is "madness."

The White House issued a account Tuesday in commendations to Payton's comments.

"It sounds like he’s somebody who's speaking from a position of abundant tragedy," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said (via USA Today). “He acutely has absent a above amateur and anyone who he's said about has meant a lot to him. There’s a lot of affliction and affect in that quote, that expression."

Payton not alone pleaded for added gun ascendancy in his account with USA Today, he adumbrated a apple afterwards accoutrements is adopted — but the White House isn't accessible to go that far.

"We can do that in a array of means afterwards abrasive the built-in rights of accustomed Americans," Earnest said.

After visiting Smith’s wife, Racquel, who was attempt alert in the incident, Payton researched the gun and was added disgusted if he abstruse the blazon of accident a .45-caliber blaster could do, adage “this affair just stops people. It will annihilate anyone aural four or 5 abnormal afterwards they are struck." He said appropriate now he "could go online and get 10 of them."

The basic audition for the declared ballista in Smith’s death, 28-year-old Cardell Hayes, is set for April 28.

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