Country Music Association Fest Bans Confederate Flags For First Time

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21. Tim and Faith rock!

https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2017/11/09/tim-mcgraw-and-faith-hill-call-gun-control-and-common-sense/848543001/

"Unlike many other country music stars, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are speaking their minds about guns.

The superstar couple reflected on the mass shooting in Las Vegas — at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival — and talked about their support for gun control.
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"This isn’t about the second amendment, this is about gun control," Hill said. "What struck me so hard after the Vegas shooting – and this is the truth – it’s when the doctors and nurses came out and said they had never seen wounds of this magnitude because these are the kinds of wounds that you see on a battlefield in war.
That is wrong, period. Our military ... have been fighting for this country and the democracy of this country for so long ... and it’s not so we can have citizens that walk this free country in this democracy and be afraid they’re going to be shot up by someone as if they were on the battlefield from hundreds of yards away."...(more)