Kelsea Ballerini’s Tribute To Nashville Shooting Victims At CMT Awards – Hollywood Life

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Whereas the CMT Music Awards will likely be an evening of enjoyable and celebration of nation music’s best, host Kelsea Ballerini made it clear that earlier than they bought to that, the neighborhood wished to pay tribute to the lives misplaced and perpetually modified on the March twenty seventh taking pictures at Covenant College in Nashville, Tennessee. “Three 9 yr olds, Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, William Kinney, together with Katherine Koonce, Cynthia Peak and Mike Hill walked into the Covenant College and didn’t stroll out. The neighborhood of sorrow over this and the 130 mass shootings within the US this yr alone stretches from coast to coast,” Kelsea started, whereas sporting a black blazer and uncooked emotion on her face. “I waned to personally arise right here and share this second as a result of on August 21, 2008, I watched Ryan McDonald, my 15-year-old classmate at Central Excessive College, lose his life to a gun in our cafeteria.”

Kelsea continued, holding again tears, “Tonight’s broadcast is devoted to the ever-growing record of households, associates, survivors, witnesses and responders whose lives proceed to perpetually be modified by gun violence.”

“I pray deeply that the closeness and the neighborhood that we really feel by means of the following few hours of music can flip into motion, like actual motion, that strikes us ahead collectively to create change for the security of our children and our family members,” she concluded.

Previous to the present on the purple carpet, many stars had been seen sporting black ribbons to point out help for the Covenant College, and CMT made be aware that they had been supporting the Sandy Hook Promise, which is geared toward defending kids from gun violence and stopping tragedies earlier than they occur.

The US was, as soon as once more, rocked with an elementary faculty taking pictures within the morning hours of March twenty seventh when a closely armed gunwoman attacked Covenant College in Nashville. Three 9-year-olds misplaced their lives, together with three courageous lecturers. Many members of the nation neighborhood reacted to the tragedy on social media, sharing their anger at lawmakers for his or her lack of response to the a whole lot of shootings that happen in colleges throughout America yr after yr.

“I’m heartbroken I’m triggered I’m offended and I’m terrified for the loss we proceed to have on this nation as a consequence of weapons. three f**king youngsters. what are we doing,” Kelsea wrote on the time. Sheryl Crow shared her heartbreak on Twitter, writing, “No phrases… The Covenant College. Our kids deserve higher. Praying for all affected. Tragic America.” She went on to reply to Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackurn’s ‘Ideas and Prayers,’ writing, “In case you are prepared to help, please go smart gun legal guidelines in order that the youngsters of Tennessee and America at massive would possibly attend faculty with out danger of being gunned down.”

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