Marilyn Manson's View Of Marilyn Manson And The Columbine Shooting

If you are anything like me, you grew up with a pretty static opinion about Marilyn Manson, based solely on the fact that what you knew of him was only his outlandish and creepy persona. He was a loose cannon, refusing to be restricted by his private Christian school’s philosophies. After his expulsion from the school and his graduation at a public high school, he moved to South Florida with his family and eventually went on to produce music that would be a continuing controversy. Concurrent with the rise of his success, there was an upheaval amongst activist groups across the world attempting to ban his performances in retaliation to the ideologies that his music and behavior seemed to emanate. He was peculiar, eccentric, and rebuffed social norms - which made people fear him all the more. Most people never thought twice about how they perceived him and frankly, I couldn’t care less.

It wasn’t until somebody told me about his interview on Bowling for Columbine and I watched it, that I really got it. At the beginning, many people used Manson and his music as a scapegoat for the Colu...