This leaves you asking God 'Why?'

Lynyrd Skynyrd’s new album “God and Guns” plays into the central country music motifs of a false sense of nostalgia and traditional southern values.

The band uses the duration of the album to preach their firm beliefs in conservative values: religion, guns and tradition.

Skynyrd conveys a sense of deep dismay at the “change” brought by President Obama, boldly arguing that they would rather go back to “the way things used be.”

“Guns” repeatedly attacks straw men, who the band argues are ruining “American values” by making people responsible for their actions.

This album depicts the state of alienation that arose from a fervent desire to remain static in a world that is rapidly changing. Every song sounds simplistically one-dimensional.

The lyrics mirror every other country song playing on the radio. This album proves that southern rock is a dying breed.