“Enough is enough,” guitarist Caleb Keeter wrote on Twitter the day after a gunman opened fire at the Las Vegas festival where he’d performed hours earlier with the Josh Abbott Band.
Although Keeter had been a lifelong proponent of gun rights, witnessing Sunday’s horrific act of gun violence changed his mind. At least 58 people died and over 500 were injured at the Route 91 Harvest festival when Stephen Paddock, 64, fired on a crowd of 22,000 concertgoers from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel.
“I cannot express how wrong I was,” Keeter wrote in a note posted to Twitter on Monday. Although the band and its crew had access to firearms of their own, the guitarist said they were “useless” during the shooting, since they could have added to the confusion and terror at the scene.
Keeter said the feeling of reaching out to loved ones during the attack made him realize the issue of gun control “is completely and totally out of hand.”
“These rounds were powerful enough that my crew guys just standing in close proximity of a victim shot by this ******* coward received shrapnel wounds,” Keeter recalled.
He continued: “We need gun control RIGHT. NOW.”
Of course those who have never been affected will continue to try to make the lame argument that they need 40 round magazines and 80 AR-15's to defend themselves from AL Franken(theoppressive government) or whatever....this crap has to change, and soon.
Although Keeter had been a lifelong proponent of gun rights, witnessing Sunday’s horrific act of gun violence changed his mind. At least 58 people died and over 500 were injured at the Route 91 Harvest festival when Stephen Paddock, 64, fired on a crowd of 22,000 concertgoers from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel.
“I cannot express how wrong I was,” Keeter wrote in a note posted to Twitter on Monday. Although the band and its crew had access to firearms of their own, the guitarist said they were “useless” during the shooting, since they could have added to the confusion and terror at the scene.
Keeter said the feeling of reaching out to loved ones during the attack made him realize the issue of gun control “is completely and totally out of hand.”
“These rounds were powerful enough that my crew guys just standing in close proximity of a victim shot by this ******* coward received shrapnel wounds,” Keeter recalled.
He continued: “We need gun control RIGHT. NOW.”
Of course those who have never been affected will continue to try to make the lame argument that they need 40 round magazines and 80 AR-15's to defend themselves from AL Franken(theoppressive government) or whatever....this crap has to change, and soon.
