Country Stars Speak Out After Florida School Shooting
By Dustin Stout
February 16, 2018
Country is using its voice to incite change.
Following the shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Wednesday (Feb. 14) in Parkland, Florida, a slew of country artists have taken to social media to share their reactions.
Cam tweeted for her Twitter followers to “get upset.” “This is not the America we are capable of,” the “Diane” singer added, responding to a screenshot from a phone of a parent engaged with a 14-year-old son on lockdown during the shooting.
This is not the America we are capable of. Please get upset. https://t.co/Qg8DnfzOyU
— Cam (@camcountry) February 15, 2018
Jennifer Nettles chimed in asking “how long it will take our government to do anything at all” and “how loudly the voices of every mother in the country can scream ‘til they do.”
More than anything else, people who want to hurt as many innocent children as they can, use guns to do it. I wonder how long it will take our government to do anything at all. I wonder how loudly the voices of every mother in this country can scream til they do.
— Jennifer Nettles (@JenniferNettles) February 15, 2018
Plot twist: It is BOTH the broken people AND their access to the guns.
— Jennifer Nettles (@JenniferNettles) February 16, 2018
Idea: Why don’t we actually address BOTH? BOTH!!!!
At least we would be trying. Right now no one is trying. Only blaming. And actually each side has some logic: People kill people AND guns kill people.
Brothers Osborne emphatically added, “Nothing will be done. Nothing.”
Nothing will be done.
— Brothers Osborne (@brothersosborne) February 15, 2018
Nothing.
Post your thoughts on the web to let the world know how you feel.
— Brothers Osborne (@brothersosborne) February 16, 2018
Have a conversation with person next with you to change their minds.
It's a slow process but that's how it works.
The Parkland shooting comes just four and a half months after 58 country music fans died in a mass shooting at the 2017 Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas.
The suspect in the latest shooting has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder.
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