Eagles of Death Metal frontman calls student anti-gun protests "pathetic and disgusting"

[Saviolo]

From Alan Cross's Journal of Musical Things: http://ajournalofmusicalthings.com/eagles-of-death-metal-frontman-calls-student-anti-gun-protests-pathetic-and-disgusting/

Jesse Hughes, frontman for Eagles of Death Metal and a survivor of a horrific mass shooting, doesn’t think much of the student anti-gun protests that we saw over the weekend.

Hughes is a hardcore gun enthusiast and supporter of the Second Amendment. He feels that what we saw with the March for Life was “pathetic and disgusting.”

And he links to Consequence of Sound here: https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/03/jesse-hughes-student-led-protests-against-gun-violence/

Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes is no stranger to controversy. In the aftermath of the 2015 terror attack on Paris’ Bataclan, during which 89 concert-goers were murdered while attending an EODM show, Hughes questioned whether the attack was “an inside job.” He also criticized France’s strict gun control laws, arguing that such laws actually encouraged an attack. “Did your French gun control stop a single person from dying at the Bataclan? If anyone can answer yes, I’d like to hear it, because I don’t think so,” Hughes said at the time.

Now, Hughes has taken to Instagram to criticize this weekend’s student-led protests against gun violence and their calls for increased gun regulation. One posting features an image that equates gun regulation to a man cutting off his penis to prevent rape. “The Whitney Houston song about letting the children lead the way wasn’t actually had operating paradigm for life,” he wrote in the caption, adding: “And when the truth don’t line up with your bullshit narrative just hold your breath and stamp your feet and refused to except it…. then take multiple days off of school playing hooky at the expense of 16 of your classmates blood….!…. it might be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic and disgusting……”

In another posting, he shared a photoshopped image of student protester Emma González ripping a copy of the US Constitution. (The actual photo depicts González ripping a gun range target, but the image has since been manipulated and spread among right wing groups.)

Hughes wrote of González: “Behold……the Awful Face Of Treason…..survivor of Nothing….Lover of Treason…..enjoy your little moment…..it’s about to End…… #stupidity #hatersofliberty #loversofsatan #borntolose #2ndamendment”

[Hoyt]

1. Another hardcore supporter of 2nd Amendment.

http://glossynews.com/wp-content/themes/gazette/thumb.php?src=&h=300&w=300&zc=1&q=90

[Codeine]

2. Right wingers are universally illiterate.

Stupid fucks.

[blake2012]

3. Who the fuck cares what that shitty musician thinks? Another shitbag who should fade away

He almost bought it in Paris nightclub. Almost as sad as their deaths were the fact that the last music these people in Paris heard was their garbage.

GOD I AM TIRED OF THESE CRO MAGNON SHIT HEADS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dchill]

4. If I were that much of an asshole...

I'd probably expose myself, too. Don't know for sure, of course.

[dameatball]

5. Jesse Hughes, meet my friend Paul McCartney. He is a musician of some reknown.

[lame54]

6. Good strategy - Because the youth are not big music consumers

[CurtEastPoint]

7. '...pathetic and disgusting...' Behold.

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[hlthe2b]

8. Can't fix bred-in (or in-bred) STUPID

[Clarity2]

9. These guys were all cowards

They ran from the stage as people were being slaughtered, ran to the police station, then hopped on a plane without offering any support to the victims/families, and didnt even attend the memorial concert. To top that off, nary a word to the press. F* them.

[Orsino]

10. Not coherent.

Spitting words without anything to say. Reads as impotent rage.