INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) — LeBron James was at home with his three kids when news broke that a 5-month-old girl had been killed in a drive-by shooting — the third fatal shooting of a child in Cleveland in the past month.  Basketball superstar LeBron James says “there’s no room for guns” after a series of shooting incidents this week. James, who has never shied away from stating his opinion on political issues, spoke after practice, a day after another tragedy in Cleveland as well as the mass shooting at an Oregon community college, where a gunman killed at least nine people and wounded others when he opened fire on campus. James decried both situations and took a strong stance on gun control, a divisive issue in the U.S. 
 
 "Four kids under the age of five or six years old have been shot and killed or very badly injured," James said. There's no room for guns, first of all, but then for violence toward kids or anybody. I see the news go across my phone and I'm sitting there in front of my three kids, so it automatically just hit me.” 
 
 "It's not just in Cleveland, it's the whole nation that goes through this as well,” he added. "We all hurt from it.” 
 
 Though James stopped short of calling for any specific gun reforms, he admitted that changing the nation’s firearms laws could be difficult. "I know what I see. And I feel very strongly about it. You educate the community – you're going to have people that slip through the cracks," he said. I don't know how you can do that. There's so many around now, today,” James said. “But if there's some stipulations behind it or some penalties, some big-time penalties or rules or regulations about carrying firearms, legal or illegal, people will second-guess themselves.”
– Presidential candidate Donald Trump and basketball superstar LeBron James took opposite sides in the divisive debate around gun control following Thursday's mass shooting at an Oregon community college. Speaking with ABC News, Trump said current or future gun laws would not have stopped a shooter from killing nine people at Umpqua Community College. "Well the gun laws have nothing to do with this," he said. "This isn't guns; this is about really mental illness. And I feel very strongly about it. And again politically correct, 'Oh we're gonna solve the problem, there'll be no problem, etc., etc.'" Meanwhile in Cleveland, a baby was killed in a drive-by shooting on Thursday, the Hill reports. She was the third child to be shot to death in the city in the past month. James addressed reporters after practice Friday. "There's no room for that. There's no room for guns," the AP quotes him as saying. "It's not just in Cleveland, it's the whole nation that goes through this as well. We all hurt from it." James took the moment to advocate in general for stronger penalties, rules, and regulations on firearms.