200 Pop Stars To Congress: End Gun Violence Now

A coalition of 200 top-selling recording artists and entertainers have signed onto a letter calling on Congress to act on gun violence. From Billboard:

As leading artists and executives in the music industry, we are adding our voices to the chorus of Americans demanding change.

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 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.

We call on Congress to do more to prevent the gun violence that kills more than 90 Americans every day and injures hundreds more, including:

Require a background check for every gun sale
Block suspected terrorists from buying guns

Billboard and the undersigned implore you—the people who are elected to represent us—to close the deadly loopholes that put the lives of so many music fans, and all of us, at risk.

Billboard reports that Joan Jett was the first to sign. Other big names include Barbara Streisand, Cher, Dixie Chicks, Ellen DeGeneres, Rufus Wainwright, Katy Perry, Macklemore, Nick Jonas, Ricky Martin, K.D. Lang, Adam Lambert, Cyndi Lauper, Lady Gaga, and Billy Joel. See the full list at the link.  200names