:If country music singers went back to packing guns, they might be able to thin the herd of those pretender wannabe country acts...”
Don’t forget Billy Joe Shaver.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-trials-of-billy-joe-shaver/
Jerry Lee Lewis Story #5 - Machine Gun (Tales From The Tour Bus)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GvuQBmgNis
Wow, I just learned all about Mr. Shaver.
I must point out though that Texas Monthly is communist propaganda for the most port.