Thanks Jason…I’m sure you’ll be attacked by the rabid NRAers but…thanks.
“It’s too easy to get guns, first and foremost,” Aldean told AP.
Thank you. 
If he keeps at it, he is going to get the Dixie Chicks treatment.
Well, a gun will certainly remove your headache.
Federal law does not require gun stores to report the purchase of multiple rifles, though it does require reporting multiple handgun purchases.
Apply this to federal laws regarding financial deposits or withdrawals, and campaign contributions. What does that tell you about our priorities?
(Hint: Guns are sacred!)
“It’s too easy to get guns, first and foremost,” Aldean told AP. “When you can walk in somewhere and you can get one in 5 minutes, do a background check that takes 5 minutes, like how in-depth is that background check?” he continued. “Those are the issues I have. It’s not necessarily the guns themselves or that I don’t think people should have guns. I have a lot of them.”
I guess it’s something, but I am sure Mr. Aldean knows that expanded background checks wouldn’t have prevented the Vegas shooter from getting the guns he used. Sounds like Aldean is afraid to say what he really thinks.
He’s right: people get a sanitized version from TV and movies of what happens to a human body when struck by a bullet from an AR-15. Even on-screen sprays of red liquid don’t convey the tissue destruction. I know this sounds horrible, but perhaps someone needs to make a realistic CG animation video that shows clearly what it looks like when (white-skinned) children and adults get shot by an AR-15 in various places.
I’m thinking of the key scene in the movie “A Time to Kill”, when the defense lawyer describes to the (all-white) jury in graphic detail what the two (white) murder victims had done to the body of the (black) defendent’s 10-year-old daughter—then asks them “now imagine she’s white”.
Thank you Jason. I appreciate his words of support to the Parkland FL students. He saw the carnage in Las Vegas and understands.
@desertrain This should be required reading for legislators. It is very descriptive of AR-15 injuries.
“You’re suspended. Please turn in your hat and belt buckle on your way out.”
I assume ammosexuals will start posting videos of themselves throwing Aldean albums in the garbage.
“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,”
The number of people who can directly relate will only increase over time.
This can’t be overstated enough. This could be a serious blow to his ticket sales, album revenue, endorsements, and even invites to perform at award shows and on tv. And it doesn’t just affect him. He’s got a band behind him that I’m sure even 99% of his fans don’t know, and tour workers.
This is what courage looks like. Good for him!
By all accounts, Paddock was a law-abiding citizen and a good guy with a gun. Until he wasn’t.
I appreciate that he is a gun owner who is stating publicly that it’s too easy to get guns, and I think some people on the fence might be influenced by that. However,
The musician told AP that in debates over gun control, “[n]obody is looking at what the actual issue is and really how to come to an agreement and make a smart decision.”
David Broder would have been proud of this BS statement. Also, while Aldean has this moment, maybe he could give us his opinion on what the people in power should do about the problem he specified. IE, what should be done to make it less easy for people to get guns.
Dixie Chicks mildly criticise Bush the Lesser: Almost a career-ending boycott led by radio stations and Reich-Wing Talk Show Hosts.
Jason Aldean softly criticises right-wing talking points on guns: Crickets.
Yeah. No misogyny on the Right at all…
Maybe, but maybe for him it’s not just about the specific horror that he witnessed but the thousands of other shootings that might be prevented too. In any event, I greatly appreciate him speaking out.
Or, you know, this is from in interview published TODAY.
Jason has been saying this publicly for over 6 months now (and I think that’s great.)
This is just the latest interview with him.
Decent, thoughtful, non-tribal. I should find that ordinary, not refreshing, but we live in very sick political times.