I never cared for his music that much.

Tom Petty’s estate is partnering with Mike Bloomberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety and claims the rock legend supported gun control.

Everytown announced the partnership with Petty’s estate on October 28, noting that gun control commercials featuring Petty’s music will be running in Colorado, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, as the midterm elections approach.

Everytown president John Feinblatt said:

For generations now, Tom Petty’s music has inspired Americans to listen to their hearts and do something good — and with the midterms less than two weeks away, there is no better cause than voting. We are truly honored to be expanding our partnership with the estate to use Tom Petty’s music to inspire voters to support gun sense champions at the polls this November.”

The Everytown ads are built around Petty’s song, “Something Good Coming.”

https://www.breitbart.com/ente..._campaign=20221105dr

I like Petty’s music just fine. Petty gave off the image of a Cannabis reeking, late era hippie type so him being anti gun seems fitting.

Everytown is fucktard. They will achieve jack shit. I am not getting worked up over it.

Good luck to them in PA. All their efforts will do here is to get people to break out their firearms for cleaning. I bet 80% of the households in PA own at least 1 gun so that's a lot of Hoppes and Ballistol.

Well drugs killed him. To be more specific:
Fentanyl, oxycodone, temazepam, alprazolam, citalopram, acetylfentanyl, and despropionyl fentanyl.
It would be more appropriate for money to go towards drug education since drugs kill way more people.

Odd. Considering how he met his end, there are better causes to champion.

I enjoy his music, but he’s always been anti-gun. I’m not surprised his estate would go in this direction. He was a gifted musician, and a libtard.

To witch I will crank up "Won't Back Down" to Bloomie's anti-gun campaign.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
Well drugs killed him. To be more specific:
Fentanyl, oxycodone, temazepam, alprazolam, citalopram, acetylfentanyl, and despropionyl fentanyl.
It would be more appropriate for money to go towards drug education since drugs kill way more people.

You do make a great point.

Don't talk about the fentanyl, its the guns! Its always about the guns!

Tom Petty's music has been a part of my youth and I still very much like it, even now, after learning he was anti-2A... but the fact that Democrats are dragging an old deceased rocker's uncontemporary irrelevant music out of the classic rock dustbin of history, just days before the midterm elections, strikes me as a desperate stunt by a desperate party willing to do anything to maintain their grasp on power.

I'm surprised that Democrats didn't dig up his remains, slap a tophat and topcoat on his skeleton, sling a guitar across his ribcage, and AI his voice in a speech about the evils of guns... followed by having his skeleton dropping a ballot in the drop box.

Not surprised at all. Like a bunch of rich and famous folks, Tom Patty’s estate planning was a mess. I’d be shocked if they ever figured out who was getting his money. His wife or his children, etc. Actually just surprised that one of the lawyers finally had even sense to pull their head out of their ass enough to even manage to “partner” with anyone.

Well the folks he grew up with in Gainesville won’t like this.

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Don't talk about the fentanyl, its the guns! Its always about the guns!

It's been proven in court fentanyl does not kill people you can take three times a supposed lethal dose and it won't kill you. Ask George Floyd.

Just the kind of guy I'd want to take advice from, didn't know how to mix his drugs apparently.
The family blamed it on pains he had been having due to orthopedic issues.
Must have been quite the talent, still being able to make marketable noises while on all that stuff at one time.

From Wikipedia,
"On January 19, 2018, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner announced that Petty had died of "multisystem organ failure due to resuscitated cardiopulmonary arrest due to mixed drug toxicity,"[93] which was reported by Rolling Stone Magazine as an "Accidental Overdose,"[94][95] a combination of fentanyl, oxycodone, acetylfentanyl and despropionyl fentanyl (all opioids); temazepam and alprazolam (both sedatives); and citalopram (an antidepressant)."

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Just the kind of guy I'd want to take advice from, didn't know how to mix his drugs apparently.
The family blamed it on pains he had been having due to orthopedic issues.

Even before he died, I remember hearing about his fractured hip, it was reported he was in tremendous pain 24/7, and I'm sure some members here can relate. The year before he died, I saw his tour as Mudcrutch, a reunion of his first band, and he was hunched over, moving slowly, very obvious he was not healthy. Some people in severe pain will take more than prescribed, I can't pass too much judgment on that. But Petty was also a heroin junkie in the 90s, so there's that history.

I'm sure this Bloomberg gun control shit is from his daughters, both young adults living in Los Angeles.