Kelsea Ballerini, Carly Pearce, Maren Morris, More Call For Action Following Nashville School Shooting: 'Is This What We Want?'

The people have had enough of the school shooting incidents.

It was supposed to be a normal Monday morning for the students and teachers at The Covenant School in Nashville, but their peaceful morning was shattered when a shooter came into the school and opened fire.

According to The Tennessean, six were confirmed dead, three of which were adults and the other three were children.

This is but another to the alarmingly long list of school shooting incidents in recent years, and despite the calls for action and demands for justice, the people's cries fall on deaf ears.

Call for Action

Nashville-based musicians took to social media to call out the government. Kelsea Ballerini shared via her Instagram Stories: "I'm heartbroken i'm triggered I'm angry and I'm terrified for the loss we continue to have in this country due to guns. three f**king kids. what are we doing."

According to Billboard, Ballerini also experience a school shooting when she was in high school, she survived it.

Charlie Worsham also took to Instagram to call out the lack of action towards these incidents, "It seems impossible to find fitting words to say about the shooting in Nashville today.

"I'm heartbroken and enraged that we can't seem to provide the simplest, most common-sense safeguards for our own children. If this was something other than a gun problem, it'd be happening all over the world. But it only seems to happen here."

"Shame on every single politician ok with doing nothing," Mickey Guyton wrote. "[...] Children are getting assassinated on an everyday basis in a place that is supposed to be their safe haven."

Direct Mention

Sheryl Crow and Jason Isbell directly mentioned Tennessee officials in their posts, the latter wrote: "Is this what we want? Monitoring the 'tragic situation' and asking for prayers?

"Something can be done Bill you just don't have the spine for it. This must be what you want, because you haven't done anything to prevent it."

He is referring to the Governor of Tennessee, Bill Lee, who signed a legislation that allowed citizens to carry loaded handguns without the need for a permit, reports say.

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