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The Neil Haley Show Featuring Kenny Anderson and David Hayes Cox Neil opened Hour 2 with NBA All-Star and Georgia Tech legend Kenny Anderson, who walked through his journey from the projects of LeFrak City, Queens to a 14-year NBA career and the upcoming documentary Mr. Chibbs (directed by Jill Campbell, produced with business partner Barry Markowitz of Green Face Productions). Kenny credited his late mother for the structure that kept him in school and on the court, his mentor Vincent Smith (TNT analyst Kenny Smith's older brother) for teaching him how to play point guard the right way, and a supporting cast of family and advisers for steering him away from the streets. He talked about being ranked the number one player in the country in high school at Archbishop Molloy, his two All-American years at Georgia Tech, and his fear of failing his mother, which haunted him even as the #2 overall pick of the 1991 NBA Draft by the New Jersey Nets. He reflected on the early Nets team with Derrick Coleman and the late Drazen Petrovic (and how that ceiling might have looked very different had Petrovic lived), his five-year run with the Boston Celtics where he set up Paul Pierce and Antoine Walker through the Eastern Conference Finals, and the trades from Portland and Boston that took the passion out of him. After his mother died in 2005, at her burial he heard God say enough, retired at 35, briefly played five months in Lithuania, and went back to school to earn his BA at St. Thomas University in Miami in 2010 — a moment he says hit him harder than draft night. He now coaches with his South Florida Elite AAU program, mentors at-risk kids in Florida, and is taking the same slogan into the documentary: basketball is easy, life is hard. The nickname Chibbs came from his mother calling him "cheeks" as a five-day-old, and he carried it all the way through Georgia Tech and the NBA. Visit MrChibbs.com. Neil then welcomed NRA-certified firearms instructor David Hayes Cox to discuss his new safety guide for parents and kids, This Is A Gun: A Safety Guide for Families with Children (ThisIsAGun.org). David, a 20-year firearms enthusiast trained under Scotty Reitz in Los Angeles, made clear up front that he is not a gun advocate but a gun safety advocate, and that he and his bipartisan co-author (on the opposite side of the political aisle) wrote the book for both gun-owning and non-gun-owning families. He walked through the foundational statistics (400 to 500 million firearms in civilian hands in the US, roughly one million sold per month, with 40 to 52 percent of American homes owning at least one) and the parallel safety domains that drove him to write it (swimming lessons drop drowning risk 88 percent, stop drop and roll, Mr. Yuck, electrical outlet covers). His three-step rule for children encountering a firearm is simple and repeatable: do not touch, run away, find an adult, including the courage to say no to a friend who wants to show off a gun. He emphasized that the book intentionally uses life-size illustrations of the most popular concealed-carry pistol on the market today (the Sig Sauer P365) because children whose only mental model of guns comes from Nerf, squirt guns, video games, and Hollywood will see a real small-frame pistol and assume it is a toy. He praised illustrator Joe Ruiz, encouraged parents to skip realistic-looking replicas for younger kids and save BB-gun training for the age when children are ready to learn the four universal laws of gun safety, and reminded listeners that even in the bluest of states roughly 25 percent of homes contain firearms, so the conversation cannot be avoided. Pick up the book at ThisIsAGun.org.
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