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Saints' Payton backs gun control: 'If that pisses people off, tough'

Chuck Cook / USA TODAY Sports

Following this week's shooting in Las Vegas, New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton can't help but speak out about gun control.

Payton first delivered this early-morning tweet:

He then spoke in more detail to reporters, calling his stance on guns in America "very clear, and if that pisses people off, tough," The Advocate's Nick Underhill reports.

The Las Vegas shooting - the largest in U.S. history - claimed 59 lives and left more than 500 others injured.

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