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The singer and songwriter introduced that he’s dropping out from performing at the National Rifle Association’s annual assembly this weekend in Houston, saying it would be “disrespectful and hurtful” to perform days after 19 children and two adults were killed in a mass shooting within the state.

McLean, who's best-known for his legendary 1971 people rock anthem “American Pie,” was scheduled to perform Saturday night through the NRA’s Grand Ole Evening of Freedom concert. But these plans modified when a gunman, identified by police as Salvador Ramos, 18, entered Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Tex., and started firing on kids in the worst mass taking pictures at an American faculty in nearly a decade.

“In mild of the current events in Texas, I have determined it might be disrespectful and hurtful for me to carry out for the NRA at their convention in Houston this week,” McLean, 76, stated in a press release. “I’m positive all the oldsters planning to attend this occasion are shocked and sickened by these occasions as properly. In any case, we are all People.”

McLean is among just a few performers who’ve introduced they are going to now not carry out at this weekend’s convention. Country and gospel singer Larry Gatlin and Larry Stewart of the nation band Restless Heart additionally said Thursday that they have been dropping out in response to the taking pictures at Robb Elementary Faculty.

Gatlin stated he was also dropping out on account of what he cited as the NRA’s “outdated and ill-thought-out positions regarding firearms” in america.

“My prayers and thoughts go to all who are suffering, and I pray that the NRA will rethink a few of its outdated and ill-thought-out positions relating to firearms in AMERICA,” he mentioned.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