Music’s A-list delivers a lecture on gun control with the surviving Beatles
More than 180 members of the music industry are voicing support for the Democrats' efforts in Congress to pass gun control measures, courtesy of Billboard magazine. The editors of the publication reached out to the people they covered asking them to sign an open letter to Congress asking for two measures – expanded background checks and banning people on the no fly list from buying guns – to be passed.
Joan Jett was the first to sign the letter, quickly followed by Lady Gaga. Soon, the remaining members of the Beatles – Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr – had signed on, along with Hillary Clinton supporters Barbra Streisand, Jennifer Lopez, Katy Perry and Demi Lovato and pop princesses Shakira and Britney Spears.
The group Everytown for Gun Safety aided the effort. 'As leading artists and executives in the music industry, we are adding our voices to the chorus of Americans demanding change,' the letter began. 'Music always has been celebrated communally, on dancefloors and at concert halls. But this life-affirming ritual, like so many other daily experiences – going to school or church or work – now is threatened, because of gun violence in this country,' it continued. 'The one thing that connects the recent tragedies in Orlando is that it is far too easy for dangerous people to get their hands on guns,' the letter said.
It went on to say that more than 90 Americans are killed by guns everyday and asked for the two measures to be passed. 'Billboard and the undersigned implore you—the people who are elected to represent us—to close the deadly loopholes that put the lives of so many music fans, and all of us, at risk,' the letter concluded.
By: Nikki Schwab
Source: Daily Mail
