CMT Music Awards. CMT faces backlash after releasing a tweet promoting the end to gun violenceA furious reaction broke out among country music fans last week after the Country Music Television Twitter account announced its support to end gun violence and encouraged everyone to wear orange in honour of the movement. “We’re (virtually) wearing orange today in support National Gun Violence Awareness Day and to call attention to the more than 100 lives that are lost every day to gun violence,” the organisation tweeted.
The tweet included a picture with the statistic that “every day more than 100 Americans are killed with guns” – a fact that came from a CDC report analysing gun violence in the US from 2015 to 2019.
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