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Country Singer Blasts the NRA for Inaction After Las Vegas Massacre(2nd Amnd guy?)
townhall.com ^ | 7/27/2018 | Erika Haas

Posted on 07/28/2018 10:40:43 AM PDT by rktman

Country music star Eric Church is making his feelings about the NRA very clear—and they aren’t pleasant.

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, the signer cast blame on the NRA for Congress’ lack of action after the Las Vegas massacre, the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history that left 58 people dead and more than 800 injured.

“I blame the lobbyists,” Church told the magazine. "And the biggest in the gun world is the NRA.”

Church was a headliner at the Route 91 Harvest Festival where the shooting took place, performing just two nights earlier. His fans were among the victims, and, understandably, it got to him.

“It got dark for me for a while,” the signer admitted. “I went through a period, a funk, for six months at least. I had anger. I’ve still got anger. Something broke in me that night, and it still hasn’t healed. There’s a part of me that hopes it haunts me forever.”

The shooting also seems to have warped his views on firearms a bit, although Church still claims he’s “a Second Amendment guy" who owns about half a dozen rifles, shotguns and pistols.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: banglist; cwhasbeen; hca; lasvegas; mandalaybay; music; nevada; nutso
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To: nickedknack

Is he bro country? The little I’ve read about him suggested alt-country. some of which is OK, but most of them know full well that they’re attempting to undermine the patriotic underpinnings of traditional country music. The bro-country types just make it all ridiculous.


21 posted on 07/28/2018 11:20:25 AM PDT by mrsmel (I wonÂ’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: rktman

I blame Eric Church for the shooting/deaths. (Makes as much sense)


22 posted on 07/28/2018 11:21:53 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: RedMonqey

Country music lost its adulthood, if you know what I mean. I gave up on new stuff years ago and only listen to classic country and bluegrass these days when I listen to country music. Even Dolly Parton publicly sold out to the sodomites.


23 posted on 07/28/2018 11:23:23 AM PDT by mrsmel (I wonÂ’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Roobarb321
Chalmers: Come on, now. Don't be naive, Lieutenant. We both know how careers are made. Integrity is something you sell the public.

Bullitt: You sell whatever you want, but don't sell it here tonight.

Chalmers: Frank, we must all compromise.

Bullitt: Bullshit!...

Bullitt: ...get the hell out of here...now.

24 posted on 07/28/2018 11:28:44 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken)
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To: nickedknack
it’s bro’ country

LMAO, that is it exactly.

25 posted on 07/28/2018 11:30:20 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: rktman

What’s a signer?


26 posted on 07/28/2018 11:40:39 AM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: nickedknack

So he’s basically 70’s rock masquerading as country?
Just asking, I have no idea what bro country is. Can’t keep up with the shifting language so I quit trying.


27 posted on 07/28/2018 11:42:25 AM PDT by oldvirginian (Imagine, if you can.......a world without islam.)
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To: rktman

He’s got some form of mental illness.


28 posted on 07/28/2018 11:43:33 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: RedMonqey
 
 
Misfire on the image - he comes off looking like a leather daddy homo, like something you'd see at the Folsom Street Fair.
 
 

29 posted on 07/28/2018 11:44:51 AM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: trisham

He also advocates for marijuana and is known as the modern day Willie Nelson by his peers. Glad I don’t devote any of my time to this garbage Nashville throws at us today.


30 posted on 07/28/2018 11:53:01 AM PDT by Archie Bunker on steroids
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To: lapsus calami
😹😹😹🤐. I saw some of Zombies pics from that disgusting event a few years ago. Eric looks like he'd fit right in.
31 posted on 07/28/2018 11:55:09 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Archie Bunker on steroids

Much of “modern” country music is unmemorable.


32 posted on 07/28/2018 11:56:58 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: rktman

I had to search to know who Eric Church used to be. He had a couple of songs that I heard enough to recognize the names, but that’s it. I’m not going to miss him when he’s gone. Hopefully, that will be soon.


33 posted on 07/28/2018 12:04:12 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: rktman

Who?


34 posted on 07/28/2018 12:19:23 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: rktman

Singers should keep to what they do, not opening their stupid mouths on subjects they have no knowledge of.


35 posted on 07/28/2018 12:22:05 PM PDT by GailA (Ret. SCPO Wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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To: rktman
 
 
Yeah - good ole Zombietime.com. Wonder if Mr. Church is trying to share something with us - reveal his innermost self and all that.
 
 

36 posted on 07/28/2018 12:25:25 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: rktman
Modern 'country' music > ma fake twang's better'n yer fake twang !

Almost as repulsive as 'rap' .. spit

37 posted on 07/28/2018 12:27:57 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: rktman

Who the hell is Eric Church ?


38 posted on 07/28/2018 12:40:29 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: nickedknack

Agree.


39 posted on 07/28/2018 12:43:22 PM PDT by lysie
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To: mrsmel

In 2014, Church claimed he started bro-country, although most say Florida-Georgia line. He since has migrated more to alt-country, but you’re right, both variations are attempting to destroy traditional/real country music, driven by a handful of mega publishing companies and the empty NYC & LA suits who run them.

And still doesn’t change that Church is an asshat who just destroyed his career. He won’t be able to cross over to pop, as did the Chixie Dicks.


40 posted on 07/28/2018 12:49:33 PM PDT by nickedknack
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