Country star Caleb Keeter changes guns stance: 'I cannot express how wrong I was'
Dave Paulson
When Caleb Keeter performed on stage with Josh Abbott Band at the Route 91 Harvest Festival on Sunday, the guitarist was a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment.
That changed a few hours later, when a gunman opened fire on the Las Vegas audience, killing at least 59 in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
"I've been a proponent of the 2nd amendment my entire life," Keeter wrote on Twitter on Monday. "Until the events of last night. I cannot express how wrong I was."
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"We actually have members of our crew with CHL licenses and legal firearms on the bus. They were useless. We couldn't touch them for fear police might think that we were part of the massacre and shoot us."
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The gunman, Keeter wrote, "laid waste to a city with dedicated, fearless police officers desperately trying to help, because of access to an insane amount of fire power. Enough is enough...We need gun control RIGHT. NOW."