Raul wrote:I was listening to I'm Back, then the Columbine line came. I became curious and went to the wikipedia page about that particular shooting. I watched BFC a few years ago, by the way, but I was never interested in knowing more about the issue.
I started to read, then I went to the Sandy Hook's page, Elliot Rodger's, page, Virginia Tech's page
Sometimes I think that Em crossed the line on those verses on MMLP
My condolences to everyone related to any of the victims of any shooting. I'm just sad as fuck right now
I was an inch away from an Elliot Rodger bullet and I do not believe Eminem crossed the line. I'm glad he repeated that line, I'm glad he decided to say "no, this is not my fault and this is not music's fault, this is the parent's fault, this is society's fault"
Cause it is, it's not eminem that makes Eliot Rodger famous, its the fuckin media and its us. It's not Eminem's music that can realize a person's mental illness, its the parents. I went through a school shooting a few months ago, The news stations, you name them, fox, abc, nbc, cnn...every single one of them was at my university for 2 weeks talking about Eliot Rodger. Yes, it's the news station that's the problem. Their the ones making a sensation out of a mass murder, and we're the problem for enjoying listening to it...Eminem is just seeing the hypocrisy and shouting it out in a very fucked up way, but in a way I can clearly understand now. It's simple as "stop pointing fingers in the wrong direction, it's music nothing more." My parents, not once, thought eminem was a bad influence on me although I learned most cuss words from him, and guess what...I wasn't the one shooting up the school... Right and wrong is not taught through music, movies or video games...and if your son or daughter is learning it from those sources, then you as a parent aren't fuckin teaching them shit. I'm sorry to disagree because you're just being a good person and seeing the fucked up things people say about bad situations....and sure that's not moral, but it's not the reason some dude decided to shoot up and stab six of my colleagues and I promise you, it's not Eminem that had a chance to stop him. I know too well, the missed opportunity we had to stop Eliot Rodgers and we missed them... His parents missed them, his therapist missed them, and the officers who went to his house that one day missed the facts that were to happen soon thereafter. Why in god's name, would I blame an artist this kid listened to?
Anyhow, thanks for your condolences, and I appreciate you remembering something everyone seems to have forgotten about but something that happened only a couple months ago.