Oregon head coach Dan Lanning urges lawmakers to 'do something' after Maine mass shooting

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The Oregon Ducks earned perhaps their biggest win of the season Saturday, but head coach Dan Lanning had other matters on his mind.

The eighth-ranked Ducks traveled to a rowdy Utah environment to take on the No. 13 Utes in a Pac-12 battle, and Oregon scored a convincing 35-6 victory to improve to 7-1.

At the tail end of his postgame press conference, Lanning addressed the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, that killed 18.

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Oregon Ducks head coach Dan Lanning congratulates players after defeating the Utah Utes at Rice-Eccles Stadium.  (Christopher Creveling/USA Today Sports)

Lanning said the topic was something he would not "normally" get into, but he said gun violence in the United States is an issue his players feel strongly about.

"What I'll say right now is, where is the respect for human life? You know, I think there's a lot more to this. I mean, people could say ‘Let’s make it about guns, and let's make it about mental health.' Why can't we use a commonsense approach and make it about everything?" Lanning said. 

"And this doesn't mean taking a stance. … I just want to ask everybody, ‘What are we doing about it?’ We can't continue to sit around and expect different results. [I] don't think I'm sitting here talking about gun control, don't think I'm talking about mental health. I'm talking about all of it. We've got a lot of smart people in this country. How about we do something to fix it?"

Oregon Ducks head coach Dan Lanning walks on the field before a game against the Stanford Cardinal at Stanford Stadium.  (Darren Yamashita/USA Today Sports)

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