Larry Gatlin Cancels NRA Convention Performance, Calls for Background Checks

Larry Gatlin is one of the performers who will no longer perform at this weekend's NRA convention in Houston, as well as offering up possible solutions to help prevent tragedies like this from happening again.

The singer says that he can't perform at the convention in good conscience. While I agree with most of the positions held by the NRA, I have come to believe that, while background checks would not stop every madman with a gun, it is at least a step in the right direction towards trying to prevent the kind of tragedy we saw this week in Uval.

It is not a perfect world and the policies of the crowd will never make it one. What if the teachers had been proficient in the use of firearms and had, in fact, been armed this week? There would not be 21 freshly dug graves for the 21 children of God.

He wants the NRA to rethink some of its outdated and ill-thought-out positions regarding firearms in America.

Gatlin concludes that the 2nd amendment should not apply to everyone. It is that simple. Please God, please help us.

The American Pie singer has dropped out of the convention, which is to be held just a couple hundred miles from Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two teachers were killed by an 18-year-old shooter.