Dave Roberts on Texas school shooting: ‘Enough is enough’

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts before Wednesday’s series finale in Washington D.C. said he felt compelled to comment on Tuesday’s school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

You can read full accounts of Roberts’ comments from MLB.com, the Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. Here is an excerpt from Bill Plunkett at the Orange County Register:

“It’s ironic that I’m sitting here in the nation’s capital where it’s been run up the flagpole, but it just seems to come to a hard stop at the Senate,” Roberts said. “How there can’t be a bipartisan consensus on an issue like this – it’s very disheartening. It’s very irresponsible by our nation’s leaders. Something needs to be done. Like everyone has said, enough is enough. When is enough enough?”

Here is video from that pregame scrum, from SportsNet LA:

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