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#242056 by Badstrat
Sat Apr 18, 2015 4:38 pm
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government ... undraiser/

Chase Bryant Stands With Tim McGraw, Will Play Gun Control Fundraiser


by AWR Hawkins17 Apr 20150
On April 14, Breitbart News reported that country singers Tim McGraw and Billy Currington would be headlining a gun control fundraiser for Sandy Hook Promise on July 17.

That fundraiser also features country singer Chase Bryant.

Sandy Hook Promise is a gun control group that formed in the wake of the heinous attack on Sandy Hook Elementary. They support expanding background checks as a way to fight gun violence, although expanded background checks would not have prevented the very attack that led to their formation. This is because Adam Lanza stole his guns, he did not buy them.

Sandy Hook Promise also supports Oregon Senate Bill 941, a bill which seeks to expand background checks in Oregon because of the 2012 Clackamas Town Center attack. However, the dirty little secret is that expanded background checks would not have stopped that attack because the gunman there stole his weapon, just as Lanza did in Newtown.

Besides expanding background checks, the bill supported by Sandy Hook Promise also opens the door to legalized firearm confiscation by requiring judges “to determine” whether an individual ordered to receive outpatient mental care is unfit for gun possession.

On April 16 Currington withdrew his name from the concert amid outrage over a country singer raising money for a gun control group. The ticket sale announcement for the concert has now been changed to reflect that McGraw and Bryant will be playing the gun control fundraiser without Currington.
#242058 by J-HALEY
Sat Apr 18, 2015 5:31 pm
Tim McGraw, apparently doesn't value his music career very much. His fan base are very much gun loving people. My prediction is his career will go the same as the Dixie Chicks. I USE to be a Tim McGraw fan! :D
#242060 by Badstrat
Sat Apr 18, 2015 5:38 pm
I never did like him. One day when I was scanning the channels I stopped a moment on a a country music award show . McGraw came swaggering towards the front of the stage from off stage singing his latest hit. He was sharp or flat so many times I couldn't believe he was even on that show. Then all of a sudden he was in perfect pitch.

I think someone forgot to turn on the AutoTune.

No problem with that Jeff, he has enough money to last him for his lifetime.
#242064 by Planetguy
Sat Apr 18, 2015 8:40 pm
kudos and good for him.

i'm not a fan of his music but i admire the guts it takes to risk losing those fans who have trouble differentiating the difference between "gun control laws" and someone trying to abolish the second amendment.

perhaps he can spend some time educating those who believe gun control = taking away everyone's guns, and so try to portray it as such.
#242066 by MikeTalbot
Sat Apr 18, 2015 10:39 pm
Gun control 'laws' are illegal. Period. Someone doesn't like that I suppose should could call a constitutional convention - but it wouldn't pass... Unfortunately we are ruled by scoflaws.

Consider a "sensible speech control law." Yup...doesn't make much sense does it.

But just to be reasonable I won't shoot my gun at the ceiling when I enjoy a good Fandango if you promise not to shout 'fire' in the theater.

Talbot
#242071 by ANGELSSHOTGUN
Sat Apr 18, 2015 11:02 pm
Sorry Mike I had to post that because some of the other comments are historically very dangerous.

Tim is an anti constitutional loser. All of his accumulated wealth should be taxed as such at a 100% rate. This game goes both ways. Think of how many poor people could afford cigarettes on food stamps. I think it's a great idea.
#242076 by Planetguy
Sun Apr 19, 2015 12:10 am
MikeTalbot wrote:Gun control 'laws' are illegal. Period. Someone doesn't like that I suppose should could call a constitutional convention - but it wouldn't pass... Unfortunately we are ruled by scoflaws.

Consider a "sensible speech control law." Yup...doesn't make much sense does it.

But just to be reasonable I won't shoot my gun at the ceiling when I enjoy a good Fandango if you promise not to shout 'fire' in the theater.

Talbot


don't like gun control????

so, i suppose you'd have no problem w selling guns to ten yr olds? how about convicted felons on parole?

cos if ya do have a problem w that.....well, then i guess you ARE for gun control! :wink:
#242077 by ANGELSSHOTGUN
Sun Apr 19, 2015 12:25 am
Totally ridiculous comment. Don't ever sell guitars to 10 year olds, they might bash some ones head in with it. Drum mallets should be outlawed because they can be painful to the ears. Let's make guns unavailable to 49 % of American households so that only outlaws and maybe an outlaw government have them.

We have been here before. I don't enjoy it when someone screams STUPID in my face. Been there done that!!!
#242083 by Planetguy
Sun Apr 19, 2015 1:40 am
Glad to see you ARE IN FAVOR of gun control when it comes to kids.

But you failed to mention your views on convicted felons buying guns. You gonna keep dodging that one?

Face it.....you ARE for gun control, afterall.
#242086 by t-Roy and The Smoking Section
Sun Apr 19, 2015 2:55 am
No matter what our position is on gun control, the average C&W fan will not look favorably on this, so it's a bad career move on McGraw's part. Not that he has any reason to care after achieving so much success already.


My guess is that most of his fans don't know he has political aspirations:

McGraw, a Democrat, has stated that he would like to run for public office in the future, possibly for Senate or Governor of Tennessee, his home state. In the same interview, he praised former President Bill Clinton. He has referred to himself as a "Blue Dog Democrat" and stated that he supported presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008.



The people of Tennessee elected crazy Al Gore for a season. McGraw should have a decent chance.
#242114 by Planetguy
Mon Apr 20, 2015 2:44 pm
Tim McGraw is defending his decision to play a concert in Connecticut this summer benefiting the Sandy Hook community after gun-rights advocates labeled him a hypocrite on social media and called the show a “gun control fundraiser.”

“Let me be clear regarding the concert for Sandy Hook given much of the erroneous reporting thus far,” McGraw said in a statement to the Washington Post. “As a gun owner, I support gun ownership, I also believe that with gun ownership comes the responsibility of education and safety – most certainly when it relates to what we value most, our children. I can’t imagine anyone who disagrees with that.”

McGraw added: “Through a personal connection, I saw firsthand how the Sandy Hook tragedy affected families and I felt their pain. The concert is meant to do something good for a community that is recovering.”

McGraw was inspired to play a fundraiser for Sandy Hook Promise, an organization that seeks to protect children from gun violence, by his fiddle player, Dean Brown. A close friend of Brown’s, Mark Barden, lost his 7-year-old son Daniel on Dec. 14, 2012, when a gunman stormed into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, killing 20 first-graders and six educators before turning the gun on himself.

At the time he announced the concert on April 13, McGraw said in a statement: “Out of this tragedy a group was formed that made a promise to honor the lives lost and turn it into a moment of transformation.” He continued, “Sandy Hook Promise teaches that we can do something to protect our children from gun violence. I want to be a part of that promise – as a father and as a friend.”
#242115 by J-HALEY
Mon Apr 20, 2015 4:39 pm
Everyone that has known about the Sandy Hook tragedy was horrified and saddened by the actions of the monster that committed the despicable act. Many lashed out in anger (some on this site) at gun owners and the 2cd amendment right. If these are truly Mr. McGraw's intensions then good. I just have a problem trusting someone ESPECIALLY a liberal when it comes to my God given right to protect myself and others if I can!
#242118 by Badstrat
Mon Apr 20, 2015 5:39 pm
Jeff,

It is a Yod said. Here is more about his political goals. His position is clear. He is for gun control and against the 2nd. What do you buy into, his actions or his claims? His statement " It’s innate in me to be a blue-dog Democrat"

He is saying I'm for the 2nd and I support gun ownership but I'm going to fund the efforts against the second because I also stand for the confiscation of guns. That phony is trying to cover his cowboy @ss by telling it both ways, but his fund raising for anti 2nd efforts and gun control say far more than his phony lip service to gun owners. What says more to you? What he says, or what he does? He is putting $$$$$$ into what he really believes. He wants to be a politician? Good choice. He has already mastered the phony rhetoric of almost every lying politician in Washington. He'd fit right in. His wife is just like him. I think this article makes it quite clear. I hope it makes the rounds among his 2nd supporting fans.


Obama Supporter Tim McGraw Touts Sandy Hook Gun Control Group

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/ ... rol-group/

by AWR Hawkins18 Apr 20150

In 2008, country singer Tim McGraw supported Barack Obama for president, saying he liked Obama’s “ideas.” In 2015 McGraw is supporting Sandy Hook Promise, a gun control group that wants to implement Obama’s ideas concerning expanded background checks.

On Tuesday, Breitbart News reported that McGraw and Billy Currington would be headlining a gun control fundraiser for Sandy Hook Promise. On Thursday, McGraw’s rep sent Breitbart News a statement, explaining that he was playing at the gun control fundraiser for “community,” not gun control. Later that day, Billy Currington took to Facebook and announced he was removing his name from the list of artists playing the fundraiser amid fan outrage.

Only country newcomer Chase Bryant remains on the ticket for the gun control fundraiser with McGraw.

In the process of reporting these things, Breitbart News came across a 2008 People Magazine interview with McGraw in which he said:

It’s innate in me to be a blue-dog Democrat. I’m not saying I’m right or wrong, but that’s what I am. My wife and I and our family will do everything we can to support Obama. I like his ideas, I like his energy, and I like the statement he would make for our country to the world.

Bottom line: McGraw went from supporting Obama in 2008 to supporting a gun control group called Sandy Hook Promise in 2015.

Breitbart News has reported that Sandy Hook Promise currently supports legislation in Oregon that opens the door for legalized firearm confiscation, they support the expanded background checks which Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said would not have prevented the Sandy Hook attack from happening, and they oppose teachers being armed in the classroom for the defense of themselves and their students.

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