Daily News | Alejandro Bedoya leads Union protest against gun violence: ‘This ain’t American exceptionalism’
Union captain Alejandro Bedoya and New England Revolution captain Carles Gil held a T-shirt that read "END GUN VIOLENCE" before the teams' game on Saturday.Before the Union’s 1-1 tie at the New England Revolution, Union players wore orange T-shirts with the message “END GUN VIOLENCE” during pregame warmups. During the game, Union captain Alejandro Bedoya wore a black-and-white armband with the same message.in Uvalde, Texas on May 24 which left 21 people dead, including 19 children.
I hugged and kissed my kids, held them real close, like many other Americans did. And I mean, yeah, I just can’t fathom what those families are going through, and what so many other families go through when dealing with this type of stuff. In the past, we’ve done other things, you know, initiatives to show our support — but also, to take a stance.
Sure, some of these people are voting against the funding of health insurance, and, you know, universal health care or mental health. This guy in Texas, the governor [Greg Abbott], he fought hard to lower the age limit [to buy certain kinds of guns] to 18 in Texas. What does an 18-year-old, why does he need to buy assault rifles, or an AR-15, an ArmaLite rifle? For what?
Close the ‘Charleston loophole.’ At the federal level, red flag laws. I mean, there’s so many initiatives that we can support and get behind, and get to people in power.I got the group together. We have a locker room full of international players. My teammates from Norway, from British [countries], a Danish guy — you know, all over the world. They come here and they can’t fathom, they don’t understand, the obsession and why these types of mass shootings happen in this country.
I have no idea what other teams did. I’m sure I’ll see later, you know, on social media, what other clubs might have done.
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