Posted October 3, 2017 4:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

There’s a lot of anti-gun propaganda floating around the internet at the moment. I mean a lot. It’s not surprising in the least, either. It’s also not surprising that a number of people who may have been pro-Second Amendment are now questioning their beliefs on that front. One of those is the guitarist for the Josh Abbot band, Caleb Keeter.

“I’ve been a proponent of the 2nd amendment my entire life. Until the events of last night. I cannot express how wrong I was. We actually have members of our crew with [Concealed Handgun Licenses], and legal firearms on the bus,” Keeter wrote. “They were useless.”

Speaking up about any remotely political issue is rare in country music, particularly about gun culture, given the genre’s close ties with the National Rifle Association. While many singers are often hesitant to get political for fear of being blacklisted from radio, the Josh Abbott Band has found plenty of success in their native Texas and as a touring band — their last charting single in 2016, called “Wasn’t That Drunk,” landed in the mid-40s. So in terms of mainstream radio, they don’t have much to lose.

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Source:: Bearing Arms

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