Former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal has never been a typical basketball player.

Besides his enormous size and playing key roles on championship teams in two cities, O’Neal has been known to have an affinity for law enforcement that stands out in a league where Black Lives Matter causes are more popular with many players than the cops who keep them safe in their multimillionaire lives.

In an interview this week about the gun control craze sweeping the country after last month’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida, O’Neal set himself apart again. And liberals don’t like it one bit.

“You’ve got a lot of people talking about getting these guns off the streets,” O’Neal said Tuesday on New York radio station WABC.

“The only problem with that is, there’s 15 million of them out there already on the streets. And then another problem is if you ban them, then you’re going to create an underground market, and the gun collectors, you know, it’s going to become more valuable.”

The answer, O’Neal said, isn’t more gun control, it’s more guns protecting kids.

“The government should give law enforcement more money,” he said. “Give more money, you recruit more people, and the guys that are not ready to go on the streets, you put them in front of the schools.

“You put them in front of the schools, you put them behind the schools, you put them inside the schools.”

That might seem like common sense – there are cops outside concerts, sporting events, and anywhere there are large gatherings. But the snowflakes of the American left, in their hyperpolitical response to Parkland, aren’t known for common sense.

And the social media meltdown was almost immediate.

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Actually, Shaq was pretty good at shooting baskets — he’s currently the eighth highest scorer in NBA history, according to the statistics website Statista.

He’s also making a pretty good point here — and most sane people know it.

The real problem for liberals here is that a certified NBA star has gone off their plantation — again. He did it with the NFL’s national anthem protests; he did it with his opinion of President Donald Trump. Now, he’s doing it on school shootings.

O’Neal is a professional basketball player with a well-known respect for the law. He’s been a reserve police office for Florida in Miami Beach and Golden Beach; for Tempe, Arizona; and for California for the Port of Los Angeles, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

He’s even planning a run for sheriff in Henry County, Georgia, in 2020, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Seeing a successful black athlete who wants to be part of law enforcement probably drives liberals even crazier than O’Neal’s stance on cops in schools.

But he hit this one dead-on.

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California has its first illegal alien in state office, after Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) appointed Lizbeth Mateo to the California Student Opportunity and Access Program Project Grant Advisory Committee.

Mateo, an attorney, was born in Mexico and came to the U.S. illegally at the age of 14 with her parents, who are also illegal aliens, according to the Sacramento Bee.

In #lawschool I often wondered if I was fit to b in #lawjournal, #mootcourt bc not many ppl w/ my same background did. I always went for it bc even if I felt inadequate I thought I could add something of value. I hope to do the same w/ @StudentAidCommission. #undocumentedunafraid https://t.co/JpZOOhJfMU

— Lizbeth Mateo, Esq. (@LizbethMateo) March 15, 2018

Thank you Sen. @kdeleon for appointing me to the CalSOAP Advisory Committee. I look forward to working w/ the rest of the committee & the Student Aid Commission in such important task – increase the accessibility of postsecondary education opportunities for low-income students.

— Lizbeth Mateo, Esq. (@LizbethMateo) March 15, 2018

She complained that illegal aliens are not adequately represented in state government, and described her appointment as a step towards correcting that alleged injustice.

“While undocumented students have become more visible in our state, they remain underrepresented in places where decisions that affect them are being made,” Mateo said, as quoted by Fox News.

De León, who is running for U.S. Senate against incumbent Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), described Mateo as: “a courageous, determined and intelligent young woman who at great personal risk has dedicated herself to fight for those seeking their rightful place in this country,” according to Fox News.

Mateo, however, seems somewhat confused about which country she prefers.

In a Facebook post in 2016, apparently celebrating her graduation from Santa Clara University School of Law, Mateo declared, in Spanish: “[E]verything is dedicated to Oaxaca, Mexico!! to that land that I miss so much.”

Lizbeth Mateo (Facebook)

While she is the first illegal alien to hold a state office, she is not the first elevated to public office in California. In 2015, the city council of Huntington Park, California, appointed two illegal aliens to city commissions, sparking a public backlash.

De León and other state officials are stoking an ongoing confrontation with the federal government over federal immigration laws.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He was named to Forward’s 50 “most influential” Jews in 2017. He is the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

Jimmy Kimmel should be learning.

A guy who makes his living playing to the public shouldn’t make a habit out of alienating half the general population every time he opens his mouth.

And even Kimmel admits it’s starting to show up in his bottom line.

“According to polls I’ve seen, it has cost me commercially,” he told Oprah Winfrey’s O magazine in April’s issue, according to Fox News. “That’s not ideal, but I wouldn’t change anything I said.”

Kimmel might want to rethink that — especially if his grating, heart-on-the-sleeve liberal schtick keeps hitting him commercially.

It’s easy to forget now — after Kimmel has spent more than a year unnecessarily taking sides in the country’s culture wars — but the late-night comedian wasn’t always so radioactively political.

As the liberal website Vox noted in September, prior to President Donald Trump’s election, “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on ABC “tended to approach politicians with the same instinct it applied to uninformed people wandering down Hollywood Boulevard: wryly pointing out how stupid they could be.”

Other than an idiotically emotional response to the death of a lion in Zimbabwe at the hands of an American big game hunter, Kimmel was generally just another guy who told gags as most of America headed to bed. (Kimmel’s weeping over the death of Cecil the lion was a mainstream media phenomenon, with gushing coverage from his own ABC as well as outlets like CNN.)

Kimmel even got some support from pro-life conservatives in late 2016 when he pointedly did not refer to the unborn baby he and his wife, Molly McNearny, were expecting as a “fetus.”

That all changed when he hosted the Oscars in February 2017 and turned it into an anti-Trump hate fest aimed directly at pleasing the liberal Hollywood audience — and ended up alienating audiences at home (Record-low ratings proved that).

Then, Kimmel used a monologue in May to go public about his newborn son’s heart condition. Anyone with an ounce of feelings could sympathize with a new father and root for a young boy with a life-threatening illness.

But Kimmel, for reasons that still aren’t clear, decided to make Republicans and their efforts to overhaul the disastrous Obamacare system the villains in the story.

In 2017, he was making about $15 million a year hosting “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on ABC, according to CNBC. When a guy has money like that and his son is still facing medical problems, it’s not the fault of the government’s health care system.

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But the liberal media, always eager for a storyline to bash Trump and the Republicans, greeted Kimmel’s new activism like it was a sign that the country wanted to get rid of the president and his party. New York magazine headlined an item: “Jimmy Kimmel Might Have Struck the Final Blow Against the GOP Health-Care Plan.”

Now, Kimmel is a de facto spokesman for Democrats, vying with the loathsome Stephen Colbert at CBS for who can offend more Trump supporters on any given night.

The problem he is seeing is that infuriating half the potential members of the audience is bad business in show business.

That showed up in the ratings for the Oscars, which he hosted again this year — and which posted another record ratings low, according to The New York Times.

So, Kimmel admits his political stance is hurting his show commercially. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will soon have no choice but admit its annual celebration of liberalism and demonizing of conservatives at the Oscars is hurting it with the American public. (Maybe a third straight year of record low ratings will do the trick.)

Because any service business that starts off by offending half its customer base is a service business that can’t survive.

And Kimmel is going to be learning that, too.

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