World champion boxer Ebanie Bridges has been forced to defend a tweet she posted about gun control after 19 children were killed in a school shooting.
Bridges, who won her world title in March against Maria Cecilia Roman, was responding to a fan who claimed gun control meant "only government had guns" when she made an off-colour remark about Australia and the UK not having "school shootings". And within 24 hours she had to clarify the message by telling fans that context was lost in her initial tweet.
The boxer had initially tweeted that "America really needs to change their damn gun laws," in a message after the Robb Elementary School shooting that saw 19 children and two adults murdered. Seventeen others were wounded in the tragic shooting, the 27th at a school this year.
