‘Why Is Ja Morant in Trouble?’: Twitter Erupts After Comedian Asks Why NBA Player Suspended for Appearing to Brandish ‘Legal’ Gun

Twitter lit up Sunday with a back-and-forth on Memphis Grizzlies’ Ja Morant’s second suspension for allegedly brandishing a gun.

The conversation was ignited by comedian Andrew Schulz, who asked, “If guns are legal why is Ja Morant in trouble?”

Schulz’s question comes after a new video emerged showing Morant – yet again – appearing to brandish a firearm during a live stream.

Many Twitter users who responded to Schulz’s question did so by suggesting the question is not whether Morant’s behavior was illegal but whether it was prohibited by his employer.

For example, Twitter user John Taylor tweeted, “He’s not in legal trouble he’s in trouble with his employer who paid him over $200,000,000 and explicitly told him not to do that after last time he did that.”

Nerd King Actual tweeted, “Because it violates his contract.”

And Deronte Adams noted:

Dillon Standridge wrote, “Because his employer, NBA/Grizzlies, asked him not to flash weapons and he continues to disrespect them.”

A Twitter user named Alex focused more on the damage brandishing a gun does for advertisers, tweeting, “True, but he’s in trouble by the advertisers. His sponsors are then sponsors of the NBA and they don’t want their brand being tarnished. Corporations and advertisers are the rulers, unfortunately.”

A Twitter user named Tim went a completely different direction with his response to Schulz’s question, suggesting the NBA does not support black men having guns for self-defense.  He tied his tweet to comments from President Joe Biden, who pushed gun control during his commencement speech at Howard University, one of America’s  HBCUs (historically black colleges and universities).

Tim tweeted, “The NBA ain’t with black men protecting themselves. That’s why Joe Biden went so hard on disarming people at an HBCU.”

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010. and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.