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    Las Vegas Massacre Prompts Musician To Call For Gun Control: 'Enough Is Enough'

    Caleb Keeter, a guitarist for the Josh Abbott Band, says, "my biggest regret is that I stubbornly didn't realize it until my brothers on the road and myself were threatened by it."
    by Bill Chappell Oct 03, 2017 3 minutes
    After a gunman used a window in the Mandalay Hotel to fire at the Route 91 music festival in Las Vegas, guitarist Caleb Keeter, who was on stage Sunday, is calling for gun control ? "RIGHT. NOW." / MARK RALSTON / Getty Images

    The deadliest mass shooting in recent U.S. history has renewed conversations about America's gun laws, after one man strafed a country music festival from a high-rise hotel in Las Vegas on Sunday. The attack prompted a musician who played at the festival to say he's changed his mind — and that the U.S. needs new gun control.

    "I've been a proponent of the 2nd Amendment my whole life," guitarist Caleb Keeter on Monday. "Until the events of last night. I cannot express how wrong I

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