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The singer and songwriter announced that he’s dropping out from performing on the National Rifle Affiliation’s annual meeting this weekend in Houston, saying it will be “disrespectful and hurtful” to perform days after 19 children and two adults have been killed in a mass shooting in the state.

McLean, who is best-known for his legendary 1971 people rock anthem “American Pie,” was scheduled to carry out Saturday night throughout the NRA’s Grand Ole Night time of Freedom live performance. However those plans modified when a gunman, identified by police as Salvador Ramos, 18, entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Tex., and began firing on youngsters in the worst mass shooting at an American school in nearly a decade.

“In mild of the current occasions in Texas, I have determined it would be disrespectful and hurtful for me to carry out for the NRA at their conference in Houston this week,” McLean, 76, said in a press release. “I’m sure all the oldsters planning to attend this event are shocked and sickened by these events as properly. In any case, we're all Americans.”

McLean is amongst a couple of performers who’ve introduced they are going to no longer carry out at this weekend’s conference. Country and gospel singer Larry Gatlin and Larry Stewart of the nation band Restless Heart additionally mentioned Thursday that they have been dropping out in response to the shooting at Robb Elementary School.

Gatlin stated he was also dropping out resulting from what he cited because the NRA’s “outdated and ill-thought-out positions relating to firearms” in the USA.

“My prayers and thoughts go to all who're suffering, and I pray that the NRA will rethink a few of its outdated and ill-thought-out positions relating to firearms in AMERICA,” he stated. “I’m a 2nd Amendment man, however the 2nd modification should not apply to everybody. It’s that easy.”