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School Shooting Leads to Blame Game

It should be no surprise the dude pictured right wearing all black was the guy that opened fire on Dawson College in Montreal on Wednesday. Kimveer Gill, 25, killed one woman and injured 19 more, 6 of whom are in critical condition in area hospitals. Gill was shot in the trench coat numerous times by police and died at the scene. If you notice, this photo has been brought to us by VampireFreaks.com. OK, take a guess as to what this site is: A) a local Montreal charity that feeds the homeless B) an educational site that helps youngsters with their phonics or C) a death website for losers who are 25 and way too old to be caught up in the whole school-shooting thing. As I write this, I am looking at this guy and I just want to go up to him and be like, "Hey dude, let me check your gun out." And then when he agrees, I fake like I'm interested in it for a moment and and then smash him in the face with the butt. The absolute worst part of this story is the array of articles popping up in Thursday's news about how Gill's favorite video game was "Super Columbine Massacre," an internet game based on the 1999 school shootings. There always has to be someone or something to blame. Yeah, it must be the video game that gave this loser no notion of right or wrong. And when he bought the game, there must have been some sort of promotion where when you buy "Super Columbine Massacre" you get a free Beretta CX4 semi-automatic rifle. It's just disgraceful. Seven years after the Columbine shootings, everyone still blames the music, movies and games for breeding violence when its so obviously the other way around. I hate Marilyn Manson's music. But what I hate more is how he became the scapegoat for the Columbine massacre. After Columbine, Manson wrote an incredibly intelligent editorial in the May 29, 1999 edition of Rolling Stone in response to the media's assertion that he was, in part, responsible for Columbine. After the events in Montreal, Manson's words are worth reading one more time.

•Columbine: Whose Fault Is It? by Marilyn Manson