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Kirsty McCormack

Harry Styles donates $1 million tour proceeds to gun safety fund after Texas tragedy

Harry Styles and Live Nation have announced that proceeds from his upcoming North American tour will be donated to a nonprofit gun safety organisation.

Harry, 28, recently added new dates to his Love on Tour line-up and all of them have already sold out.

Taking to Instagram on Friday, the former One Direction singer shared a statement with his 45.2 million followers just days after the tragic school shooting in Uvalde city, Texas.

Harry wrote: "Along with all of you, I have been absolutely devastated by the recent string of mass shootings in America, culminating at Robb Elementary School in Texas.

Harry Styles has announced that proceeds from his upcoming North American tour will be donated to a nonprofit gun safety organisation (PA)

"On our North American tour, we will be partnering with Everytown who work to end gun violence, donating to support their efforts, and sharing their suggested action items. Love, H," he added.

Harry simply captioned the post: "End gun violence," and also shared call to action information for those who want to help Everytown and their movement.

Live Nation also took to Instagram to confirm the move, and wrote: "Live Nation is proud to join Harry Styles in matching his donation to Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund - equalling over $1 million and counting."

Harry's fans were quick to comment on his post, with one person writing: "i love you harry. thank you for caring."

Another said: "thank you for using your platform to speak about it," and a third person added: "I love how he uses social media for things like this!"

Many high profile voices have been calling for an end to gun violence once again after Salvador Rolando Ramos fatally shot 19 students and two teachers, and wounded 14 others at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24.

Salvador Rolando Ramos fatally shot 19 students and two teachers, and wounded 14 others at Robb Elementary School in Texas on May 24 (Phil Harris)

Earlier that day, the 18-year-old perpetrator had shot his grandmother in the face, severely wounding her.

Ramos had shared images of guns and ammunition on Instagram ahead of the school attack, before tagging a woman unknown to him and telling her he had “a secret”.

The woman later wrote on her Instagram stories that she had no idea who Ramos was and was worried about the gun post.

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