Posted June 27, 2019 4:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Ever since the Las Vegas massacre, country music artists have been seemingly coming out of the woodwork to take an anti-gun position. Some have been incredibly vocal about it, which might not be the best career move when you consider the demographics of country music fans.

However, when this was transpiring, Carrie Underwood released a song that appeared to have an anti-gun message. As she’s one of the biggest stars in the genre, it was a huge win for anti-gunners.

Only, it doesn’t sound like she was trying to send any such message.

It must be a strange time for such a quintessentially American artist to be visiting the wider world, especially one who is white, southern and religious. “I feel like more people try to pin me places politically,” she says carefully. “I try to stay far out of politics if possible, at least in public, because nobody wins. It’s crazy. Everybody tries to sum everything up and put a bow on it, like it’s black and white. And it’s not like that.”

She cites as an example the reaction to her recent single The Bullet, which looked at the long-running emotional impact of a shooting death. “Immediately people …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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