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‘Good Riddance’: Country Music Fans Trash CMT For Touting Gun Control Campaign, Promise Boycott

Tim Pearce
‘Good Riddance’: Country Music Fans Trash CMT For Touting Gun Control Campaign, Promise Boycott
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Viewers of Country Music Television, known as CMT, are slamming the company and promising to boycott its upcoming awards show after it urged viewers to “wear orange” for a gun control campaign.

“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. #WearOrange and visit wearorange.org for more,” CMT tweeted last week.

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