Cubs' Maddon: 'It doesn't make any sense' to own an automatic rifle

In the wake of a mass shooting that took the lives of 17 people at the former high school of Anthony Rizzo, Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon gave his thoughts to Sahadev Sharma of The Athletic on Thursday at the team's spring training complex in Mesa, Ariz.

"There's gotta be something to be done about that," Maddon said regarding the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. "There has to be. More importantly, I don't know enough, except that it just doesn't make any sense that an automatic rifle has to be in anybody's hands. I don't understand that."

Rizzo left the Cubs' spring training facility on Thursday to return to his former high school. Rizzo, a Fort Lauderdale native, and his family reportedly knew some of the victims of the shooting.

Parkland marks the 17th school shooting of 2018 in the U.S., according to Everytown.