Jason Aldean joins Bobby Bones for a touching moment on stage as they are joined by the Las Vegas first responders to remember the victims and their families affected by the horrible tragedy one year ago.
It's rare that you see people stand up and applaud police, firefighters and first responders anymore!! We need more of it in this beautiful country 👏🏽❤🇺🇸
My Uncle, Detective Michael Sclimenti, is a Las Vegas Metro Policeman and he was one of the first guys on the scene as I’m informed and his SWAT team was entering Mandalay Bay when Paddocks’s bullets were hitting the ground parking lot
I love country music. I've been listening to it since I was 6 years old. But ever since what happened five years ago in Vegas, Country artists have been silent on more gun control. Sure there were a few artists who spoke up, but the country music community kept quite. And trust me, this isn't sour grapes, but the fact that 58 country fans lost their lives and that both country artists and country fans have been silent about more gun control makes me sick. And the fans are just a big a part of the silence as the artists are because instead of trying to push so more gun control, they are arguing and more worried about what is and what is not country and then at 5 in the morning they worry about tickets to see Taylor swift who is a part timer in Country Music the same way The Rock and Brock Lesnar are part timers in the WWE. You can call me crazy or anything you want to. But there's a reason I hardly listen to today's country since Vegas and there's a reason why I didn't watch CMA 51 a month after Vegas, and that's because I'm extremely disappointed and embarrassed by how the Country Music community has responded to Vegas. Instead of having 58 seconds of silence, how about we use the 58 seconds to THINK and TALK ABOUT what to do prevent more people, both inside and outside the Country Music world, from dying in a mass shooting. And if worrying about someone who has similar interest to what I like offends you, then I am sorry for caring about other people. If you're someone who is upset when an all female country band says we shouldn't go to war, and/or if you're upset when a country artist is punished for making an offensive remark, and/or worried about singer who has been irrelevant in country music since she left the genre in 2014 yet still gets attention as if she needs but it she clearly does not deserve, but you have been silent and have shown no outrage or demand for regulations on guns (especially with several mass shootings since 10/01/2017 with multiple ones happening at SCHOOLS), you are a part of the problem. You are complicit. I am sorry, but I 100% believe that anyone in the country music world (artists, fans, labels, etc.) who went down the thoughts and prayers path instead of being angry and demanding change (immediately after Vegas) is complicit. Besides, I thought that this was the genre that had the mindset of "if you mess with us, we'll put a boot in your a** because it's the American Way". But when Vegas happened, we were cowards.
The officers were doing their job and should absolutely be commended for their courage and heroism. Unfortunately, that clown they work for should not. He, in no way, represents the values of the department.
Help his fans? He was being shot at too. It's not the military it's a concert. His young son and wife were back stage and were more important than anyone else and you'd do the same. We all would. Grow up.
