Jason Aldean has released a new statement on the massacre at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, where he was performing when a gunman opened fire, killing 59 people and injuring more than 500.

Posting on social media, Aldean expressed his grief and confusion over the tragedy, the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

“Over the last 24 hrs I have gone through lots of emotions. Scared, Anger, Heartache, Compassion and many others. I truly don’t understand why a person would want to take the life of another. Something has changed in this country and in this world lately that is scary to see. This world is becoming the kind of place I am afraid to raise my children in,” he wrote.

“At the end of the day we aren’t Democrats or Republicans, Whites or Blacks, Men or Women. We are all humans and we are all Americans and it’s time to start acting like it and stand together as ONE! That is the only way we will ever get this Country to be better than it has ever been, but we have a long way to go and we have to start now,” he continued. “My heart aches for the Victims and their families of this Senseless act. I am so sorry for the hurt and pain everyone is feeling right now and there are no words I can say to take that pain away. Just know u all are in my heart and my prayers as we all go through this together. Time to come together and stop the hate!”

Since both questions pertain to life in America, my answer to both questions is….Yes.

People are being SLAUGHTERED….not just grown folks but even CHILDREN….more and more frequently at the hands of madmen who have “the right” to own as many weapons of MASS destruction as their little dark hearts desire. And WHY?! Well because “that’s the price of freedom” says Bill O’Reilly, the NRA and every d*mn politician in the NRA’s back-pocket. It’s pure Evil.

America has become a nation that will accept the most depraved and vile and vulgar and Violent acts of Inhumanity. Such acts, it seems, have become the norm in America. WE are being destroyed from within.

The creatures who OWN the GUN industry and other destructive American industries RULE this country. And everyday, WE are witnessing the catastrophic results of such madness. As a nation, WE are IMO, bent AND broken. Twisted AND Tortured. But most of all, WE are lost because those creatures are driven first and foremost by “the LOVE of money” which, as they say “is the root of ALL evil.”

And WE (the American people) have allowed those creatures to lead Us down the path to destruction.