So I'm sure this happens more often than gets reported but it pisses me off, so to vent I'm writing this.
For those of you who are unaware, three plots by teenagers in the USA, to go on killing sprees were foiled in the past weeks.
So what you say? People kill eachother all the time what's the point?
The point is that when an adult shoots another adult in the USA it bareley makes any news it happens so much. BUT! Upon further investigation it was determined that all these kids liestened to "Death Metal" so this was the real cause of the violence. (incidently Eric, and Dylan, the Colombine kids also liked hard metal)
Now ok this makes me mad, and sorry to pick on the states again but this is where stuff like this seems to always happen.
Personally, I am a huge fan of Rammstein, and Dimmu Borgir, own all their albums, and have seen both live a few times, but do I go around and shoot people because the music told me to?
Granted fans of harder metal may be part of their own little 'goth' group or w/e, but that's just their way of rebelling or standing out or w/e they want to do. This music may not be mainstream, and may sound evil, and have bad lyrics, but music (like art) is mereley an expression not to be taken literally.
We've all had bad days for one reason or another, and gotten very angry, and it's been proven that loud, angry music is an effective way to vent. Sometimes we all need to go into our room, close the door, pull the blind, and throw on Mutter, or Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia, or w/e and just let our anger out through the music. It's a completley healthy, normal thing to do. And is a much better way to get your anger out than say punching a wall, or shooting up a school/workplace. If anything listening to sappy pop music would only make you angrier.
IMO these people who kill others would do these things regardless of whether they listened to Marilyn Manson, or Laurence Welk. But it's just so much easier to blame the "dark evil anti-christ" music that they listen to. Anotehr typical stereotype of today's moronic population.
No way can it be bad parenting. It has to be the music. Maybe instead of "Parental Advisory - Contains Explicit Lyrics" warnings today's CD's should come instead with "Parental Advisory - This CD will cause your child to go on a murderous rampage"
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