Analysis: While trying to avoid the gun debate, the CMAs wade in even deeper

On the night of October 12, country superstar Jason Aldean performed at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was his first concert since being on stage at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, the site of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, and Aldean wanted to talk to his audience about what he had witnessed. After about four or five minutes of what appeared to be a combination of thanking the crowd and thinking out loud, Aldean ...

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