Marilyn Manson wrote a song called "Get your Gunn" which is said in this article which highlights socially unacceptable music that has become popular because it was black listed, to be about, "Dr. David Gunn, an abortion provider who was murdered by Michael Frederic Griffin in the first ever documented assassination of an abortionist."
You can see the video here if you want. You can see in the lyrics where he is talking about the murder that hapened back in 1993.
"Pseudo morals work real well / On the talk shows for the weak / Selective judgment, good guy badges / Don't mean a F$@% to me"
According to this website, one lyric analysis reports that, "this part of the song is about hypocritical activists who blame the wrong people because they don't share the same beliefs." Manson has always been a 'pushing-the-envelope' type of artist, but this song really captures his creativity. The song is, "...saying that nobody's a saint, no matter how devoted they are to doing what they thought was right."
Manson calls the murder a hypocrisy because someone who is pro-life took the life of a person--the very thing that they vow to protect. We hear about these kinds of stories all the time. I think the pro-lifers that kill people in the name of their cause see themselves as saviors. Somehow in their twisted mindset, killing someone who kills babies for a living will put a stop to abortion. It doesn't make perfect sense in our minds, but it does in theirs.
I used to be a huge fan of Manson and have heard a lot of controversies that people were up in arms about over him. Many organizations have spoken out against him and what he stands for. That song came to the forefront of the public as a poster child to explain the traqgedies that occured at Columbine. I would not like to say the song was the reason for the shootings because I don't beleive that. I feel that the biggest problem that the shooters had, and has shown in school shootings that have occured since then, is that there was no one there for them to talk to. Out of regret for not reaching out to them I beleive the media used Marilyn Manson as the scape-goat?
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I am not a die hard fan or anything, but I appreciate his talent and I definitely agree with you about the media's role. His music plays the same role as video games have been framed to violence.
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