Here is a timeline of musicians who have spoken out against gun violence in the United States.
helped make Willie Nelson one of the most recognizable faces of the Outlaw Country movement that saw contemporary country singers imagine themselves as gun-slinging badasses of the wild west. But Nelson has often espoused relatively progressive politics for a country star. In an appearance on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight in 2012, advocated for stricter laws for automatic weapons. “I don’t know what I would do with a gun that would shoot 1000 times,” Nelson told Morgan.
After the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary mass shooting in Connecticut, Bennett teamed up with the Brandy Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence for a 2013 text message campaign to help Americans contact U.S. Senate offices. “There’s something that’s gone wrong and, as citizens, we should protest what happened in Connecticut.
Eric Church, who performed two days before shooting, had long identified as a proud gun owner, but spoke openly about who was complicit in the tragedy. “I blame the lobbyists. And the biggest gun in the world is the NRA,”“Pray for the country community, those that got hurt tonight, and that whatever drives this evil can be f–king crushed,” Kacey Musgraves tweeted after the Route 91 Harvest shooting.
Halsey vented emotionally about the tragedy on Instagram, writing “I just want all school-age children to be protected and not grow up in the epicenter of this trauma. It is so futile and revolting that lawmakers protect guns over our youth. It’s despicable.” On Twitter, Texas native Selena Gomez also wrote with anger, nothing “Those in power need to stop giving lip service and actually change the laws to prevent these shootings in the future.
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