Kacey Musgraves, Maren Morris, Jason Isbell, Margo Price, Dozens More Nashville Musicians Call for ‘Common Sense Gun Safety Legislation’
variety.comJem Aswad Senior Music Editor Emmylou Harris, Sheryl Crow, Amy Grant, Kacey Musgraves, Jason Isbell, Maren Morris, Margo Price, Mickey Guyton, Kelsea Ballerini and dozens of other top Nashville musicians are calling for the Tennessee General Assembly to pass “common sense gun safety legislation” before lawmakers end their session a few days from now, according to a report in the Tennessean. (A complete list of signees is below.) The letter calls for extreme risk protection laws and legislation strengthening requirements around secure storage of firearms.
The letter was drafted after of the deadly Covenant School shooting last month, in which three adults and three nine-year-old children were killed.
It was the 19 th shooting at a school or university in 2023 alone — one of hundreds of mass shootings in a country with a government that, largely due to Republican obstruction, refuses to pass more-thorough gun-control laws. “Gun violence in Tennessee is not inevitable,” the group said. “We are not hopeless, and we will not accept inaction.
This does not have to be our normal and we ask that you stand with us! We know that gun safety laws work. Policies like extreme risk protection laws and secure storage of firearms can save lives.
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