What's really amusing abotu him is that his views on gun control and violence are almost IDENTICAL--eerily so--to Rush Limbaugh's: [paraphrased] "Gun laws don't stop criminals. Look how many social and legal controls are on guns already, and criminals have no intention of abiding them. The criminally-minded will persist regardless of whatever controls you try to impose on them, so punishment is the deterrance, and proper parenting."
Now, I don't necessarily agree with this myself ("It's the parents' job!" is a favorite shoulder-shrug of Hollywood celebrities who spew all sorts of filth and then deny any responsibility for their effects on youth), but it's funny to hear how similar the rhetoric is. Manson's interview in the Michael Moore film "Bowling for Columbine" really lays that out.
Frankly, I was surprised at Manson's cowardice in this issue. He pats himself on the back for being an Antichrist Superstar and attracting so many legions of fans who follow him and endow him with power, and he injects them with a predictable routine of grisly hatred, violence, and nihilism...then when two of them express the most extreme representation of what Manson's preaching (destruction of the mainstream establishment, violence as problem-solving, arrogant cruelty, antisocial psychosis) he suddenly throws up his hands and lamely defends, "Huh? They don't have anything to do with MY message!" I would at least have respected the honesty of his saying, "Damned right! Maybe now you'll take these kids--and me--seriously!"
It would have been sick, but honest. His ducking the situation is a betrayal of his own career message.
Oh, and before you all jump on me as a "hater," I saw him with NIN.
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