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The singer and songwriter introduced that he’s dropping out from performing on the Nationwide Rifle Association’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 within the state.

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

“In gentle of the current events in Texas, I've determined it might be disrespectful and hurtful for me to carry out for the NRA at their convention in Houston this week,” McLean, 76, said in a press release. “I’m sure all the parents planning to attend this occasion are shocked and sickened by these occasions as effectively. In spite of everything, we are all Individuals.”

McLean is among a couple of performers who’ve introduced they may no longer perform at this weekend’s convention. Nation and gospel singer Larry Gatlin and Larry Stewart of the nation band Stressed Heart also said Thursday that they had been dropping out in response to the taking pictures at Robb Elementary School.

Gatlin said he was also dropping out as a consequence of what he cited as the NRA’s “outdated and ill-thought-out positions concerning firearms” in the USA.

“My prayers and ideas go to all who're suffering, and I pray that the NRA will rethink a few of its outdated and ill-thought-out positions regarding firearms in AMERICA,” he stated. “I’m a 2nd Modification man, however the 2nd modification shouldn't apply to everybody. It’s that straightforward.”