Fuck them, just like the big gay NFL
“Drew Baldridge was conflicted. The young country singer was shaken from having performed at Las Vegas’ Route 91 Harvest Festival just two days before 59 people were killed at the concert in the deadliest shooting in modern American history. Now, a few days after the October 1st tragedy, Baldridge had to figure out whether or not he should continue his partnership with NRA Country, a subset of the National Rifle Association that promotes the NRA to country music fans.
Baldridge was set to be NRA Country’s Artist of the Month for October, the first singer to be featured in the campaign since the Vegas massacre.
“This was already set up before [Las Vegas] happened, and it was a little scary for us,” he says. “We knew it was going to probably be somewhat of an issue.”
Baldridge decided to continue with his partnership, and within weeks NRA Country was promoting his latest single – titled “Guns and Roses” – on social media. Baldridge’s predicament is illustrative of a larger debate happening in country music, which in the weeks since the Route 91 shooting has had to reckon with its deep cultural and economic ties to the gun industry.
Immediately after the shooting, the country music community was overwhelmed with a prevailing sense of silence on the issue of guns, with nary a single recording artist willing to speak publicly about the topic.
Since then, Nashville has slowly, if hesitantly, begun to reflect upon its relationship with firearms. Rolling Stone spoke with a dozen artists and industry veterans about their evolving, often conflicted feelings about country music’s economic and cultural relationship with the gun industry, a relationship informed and made complicated by country’s formal ties to the gun lobby via NRA Country”
Eatgrueldog 
“Country” music can survive without the NRA, the NRA can survive without “country” music. Neither can survive without everyday people who are sick of every fucking thing in the country being politicized.
And fuck Rosanne Cash.
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