Nearly 200 entertainers and influential executives from the music industry signed a letter to Congress urging lawmakers to take action on gun control legislation in the wake of two Orlando shooting tragedies.
The letter, released Thursday by Billboard magazine, features signatures from Katy Perry, Paul McCartney, Lin-Manuel Miranda, DJ Khaled, Cher, Kesha and others. It comes after a mass shooting at an Orlando gay nightclub that left 49 dead and 53 others wounded and the unrelated murder of singer Christina Grimmie after a concert in Orlando.
"Music always has been celebrated communally, on dancefloors and at concert halls. But this life-affirming ritual, like so many other daily experiences—going to school or church or work—now is threatened, because of gun violence in this country," the letter reads. "The one thing that connects the recent tragedies in Orlando is that it is far too easy for dangerous people to get their hands on guns."
See the letter below:
Other celebrities have spoken out on the need for gun control legislation in the wake of the Orlando murders, pushing for change on Twitter:
Just give them a vote!! It's a VOTE!!! You're free to disagree, that's what the VOTE IS FOR!! So transparent. So sad. No Republican Action.
— Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) June 23, 2016
The fact that anyone can so easily access guns is so scary & after all of the devastating loss the Senate should have not failed us!!!
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) June 21, 2016
I don't have anything original here.
— ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) June 12, 2016
Just, what's it going to take to bring us sensible policies?#Orlando
We have to vote the GOP out of leadership of both House & Senate to get anything done on guns. Please vote in November.
— John Legend (@johnlegend) June 20, 2016
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