Christian Pulisic spoke out on the U.S. men’s national team’s letter calling on Congress to pass gun control legislation following a 0-0 friendly draw against Uruguay on Sunday.
In the aftermath of the recent mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, the USMNT released a letter addressing both the House of Representatives and the Senate before the game, and all players wore orange armbands as part of gun control movement Everytown’s “Wear Orange Weekend.”
Speaking to reporters after the game, Pulisic said the idea to take action spread “throughout the whole team,” noting that head coach Gregg Berhalter talked to some players about the subject and that the team drafted the letter collectively.
“I hope you guys can all realize why we did it,” said Pulisic, who said that he felt that “anything that we can do in trying to take action” was worth doing. “I think people can say ‘It’s not the guns, it’s the people,’ but we have to start somewhere. And [the letter] was where we wanted to start.”
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