Clarkson hails vics at Billboard Awards

KELLY CLARKSON said at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday that she was tired of the same old song and dance about gun violence. The Lone Star State singer skipped a planned moment of silence for the 10 victims of Friday’s mass shooting at a Texas high school and instead piped up about the need to keep children safe. “Why don’t we do a moment of action?” said a tear-filled Clarkson, who was hosting the show. “Why don’t we change what’s happening? Mamas and daddies should be able to send their kids to school, to church, to movie theaters, to clubs.” Two teachers and eight students were killed and 13 others were wounded when 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis allegedly opened fire Friday at Santa Fe High School. The Billboard Music Awards paid tribute to the victims of multiple school shootings by having the choir from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School back up Khalid and Shawn Mendes with their song “Youth.” Seventeen people, including 14 students, were shot and killed at the Parkland, Fla., school on Feb. 14.