Louder than guns (can country music save America?)

[Tanuki]

https://www.belcourt.org/films/louder-than-guns/

"LOUDER THAN GUNS begins with tragedy and becomes a story about how listening, empathy, and song can rise above the noise. In the wake of yet another horrific mass shooting, this time at the Covenant School in Nashville (in March 2023), Ketch Secor, lead singer of the popular country-bluegrass band Old Crow Medicine Show, decided it was time to speak out on gun reform. He felt compelled to write an op-ed in the New York Times entitled, “Country Music Can Lead America Out of Its Obsession with Guns.” This caught the attention of Ketch’s friend, public radio journalist David Greene, and the two set out to kickstart productive and open dialogue about gun rights and gun violence in America. LOUDER THAN GUNS brings together the frustrations and hopes of citizens who are asked to listen to one another and try to find common ground on this profoundly American issue. Led by Secor and Greene, these emotional and inspiring discussions, in barbeque joints, barbershops, church pews, gun stores and concert halls prove that localized, community-led discourse has the power to move the needle on gun reform in ways that today’s polarized media and politicians rarely achieve.

Mon, May 11 at 8:00pm: Pre-screening panel discussion with Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show; Katy Dieckhaus, mother of Covenant student Evelyn Dieckhaus and community engagement coordinator for Safer Tennessee; and Clay Stauffer, senior minister, Woodmont Christian Church and author of "What the World Needs Now: Virtue and Character in an Age of Chaos;" moderated by Blake Farmer, host of Nashville Public Radio's "This is Nashville." Doug Pray, LOUDER THAN GUNS director, and David Greene, host of KCRW's "Left, Right and Center" and former host of NPR's "Morning Edition," will also be in attendance." (BUY TICKETS at link)

[Ocelot II]

1. I don't know, but it can make me run away screaming.

[magicarpet]

2. Nice to see someone new step into the fray of,...

....responsible gun control and bring new ideas to the table. The last two brand new country songs I heard were liberal country singers,.. singing songs to primarily red necks and trying to soften their rigid religious and social outlooks.

Country music can be a heavy weight catalyst for social and cultural change. We should welcome their effort and help to bring needed political and policy transitions through their guitars and country music. The more people we reach the easier our job is to evoke change for a better tomorrow in mind.