You probably already know that the shooter at the Sikh temple yesterday was a white supremacist involved in the "white-power music scene" I don't want to give him or his bands any fame or page hits, so I won't name names or provide links, but I did want to draw attention to the lyrics from some of the songs. I keep hearing on the news that the motive is "unclear," but the song lyrics make things very clear.
The title of this diary is just one example: "Revolution is in the air, a 9 mm in my hand." There is no subtlety in those lyrics. No poetry or metaphor, just blatant hate.
From another song: "Gonna shoot your whole group down and send the others on the run."
Nothing is unclear here. This man was so consumed with hate that it was all he could see. He killed six men he didn't know because he hated them. He hated them because they were different from him.
And, before he did it? He made his intentions perfectly clear through his music. He said what he was going to do and then he did it. The only thing unclear is why no one was paying more attention to him.
Whatever your thoughts are on gun control, surely any reasonable person can agree that someone who flat out says they are going to use a gun to commit mass murder should not have a gun.