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A huge country star just waded into waters that he may never recover from. Jason Aldean
was the country star that was playing during the Las Vegas mass shooting last year. The
horror of what he witnessed has changed his life.
Being a country celebrity, often means that you are a hunting and fishing guy that is
a card-carrying member of the NRA. But not Jason Aldean, everything has changed since
last years mass shooting, he has decided, like Tim McGraw to be a mainstream celebrity
who is anti-gun.
This week, Tell Me Now wrote: Jason Aldean is likely to shock a lot of country fans with
recent statements about gun control in an interview with the Associated Press.
The singer, who was on stage during last year’s mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival
in Las Vegas, said that guns are “too easy to get.” He is calling for more in-depth
background checks.
“It’s too easy to get guns, first and foremost,” Alden complained. “When you
can walk in somewhere and you can get one in five minutes, do a background check that
takes five minutes, like how in-depth is that background check?
Aldean claims to be a gun owner, but this statement has people wondering if he bought
his own guns as it typically takes more than 5 minutes to go through an actual background
check. He also fails to understand that people who want to cause harm are going to find illegal
ways to do so.
These are Aldean’s first comments advocating for gun control since the mass shooting. His
actions are a major contrast to that of Country star John Rich, who handed his personal gun
to an off-duty police officer who was unarmed during the shooting.
Aldean also said that he identifies with Parkland students like David Hogg who are calling for
massive restrictions on the Second Amendment.
“Unless anybody has witnessed anything like that or been a part of it, it’s really hard
for people to really understand where you’re coming from on that stuff,” Aldean told
the Associated Press. “It’s like the kids from the school in Florida, that shooting.
I get it, man. I understand how they are feeling.”
If Aldean makes further comments advocating restrictions on the Second Amendment, his
bottom line could be affected if country fans who support gun rights boycott his music in
protest.
While I completely understand that Jason went through a horrible situation and saw the horror
of that summer night in Las Vegas, you can’t turn your back on the solution. Good guys
with guns trump bad guys with guns. Tough guns laws don’t change the minds of criminals,
look at Chicago. It’s time for real change and capable people and do away with gun-free-zones.