{"id":2447385,"date":"2019-08-10T11:34:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T17:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=870140"},"modified":"2019-08-10T11:34:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T17:34:32","slug":"slipknots-corey-taylor-there-are-too-many-f-cking-guns-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/slipknots-corey-taylor-there-are-too-many-f-cking-guns-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Slipknot\u2019s Corey Taylor: \u2018There Are Too Many F-cking Guns in America\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Slipknot<\/a>\u2019s Corey Taylor<\/a> likened gun culture to a cult and blasted politicians for continuing to blame music and video games for mass shootings in a new interview.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Independent<\/em><\/a> prior to the release of Slipknot\u2019s new album We Are Not Your Kind<\/em><\/a> \u2013 and two days before the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio \u2013 Taylor said, \u201cThere are too many fucking guns in America. I could walk outside right now and find a gun within minutes. There\u2019s a very toxic gun culture here, it\u2019s a cult, and it worries me.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of the El Paso and Dayton shootings, politicians have once again put music, movies and video games under the microscope: Donald Trump tweeted about \u201cviolent video games\u201d and \u201cLiberal Hollywood,\u201d while the fact that the Dayton shooter wore a metalcore band\u2019s hoodie during the attack brought additional (and unfounded) scrutiny to music\u2019s alleged role in violent incidents.<\/p>\n

\u201cMusic is an easy target because [people in authority] don\u2019t understand it,\u201d Taylor added. \u201cThere\u2019s a complete lack of effort to try to understand it, and a lack of willingness to take any portion of the blame for these events.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taylor\u2019s comments to the Independent were tragically prescient considering that, just two days later, the El Paso and Dayton shootings claimed 31 victims combined.<\/p>\n

Taylor continued, \u201cIf you\u2019re looking for a certain kind of rhetoric, whether it\u2019s hating black people or gay people or whatever, there are thousands of sites with people posting about it. We\u2019re seeing the repercussions of a failure to address that. They still wanna blame the fucking music, and it\u2019s been happening since the Sixties to \u201885 with Tipper Gore<\/a>\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of the Dayton shooting, Taylor slammed a journalist who attempted to place blame on the Acadia Strain, the metalcore band whose hooded sweatshirt the shooter wore. \u201cNo. You don\u2019t get to fucking do that. This isn\u2019t about a fucking t shirt. And the Acacia Strain are not a hateful or vengeful band. Blame the KILLER; not the fucking WARDROBE. You Ghoul,\u201d Taylor tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Slipknot\u2019s Corey Taylor likened gun culture to a cult and blasted politicians for continuing to blame music and video games for mass shootings in a new interview. Speaking to the Independent prior to the release of Slipknot\u2019s new album We Are Not Your Kind \u2013 and two days before the mass shootings in El Paso, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 02:35:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}