The Alamo and the Riverwalk are the landmarks most associated with San Antonio, but they don't tell you as much about the city as its nickname does: Military City, USA. It's been called that since World War II. The largest joint base in our Department of Defense is in San Antonio. Almost every enlisted medic is trained in San Antonio.
And Military City, USA, is where Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich has lived and worked for more than 30 years. He's an Air Force veteran himself, and the NBA's winningest coach, so on Sunday when he used his final pregame conference of the season to advocate for more gun control, his comments quickly became a top news story.
That is until a 25-year-old killed five and injured eight others with an AR-15-style rifle less than 24 hours later at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky.
