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Eagles of Death Metal Singer Rips Gun Control
The lead singer of the Eagles of Death Metal, the band playing when gunmen opened fire in a Paris concert hall, says gun control will do the opposite of keeping people safe. Jesse Hughes said in a recent interview that France’s gun laws only made it easier for the terrorists to carry out their attacks.
“Did your French gun control stop a single [expletive] person from dying at the Bataclan? And if anyone can answer yes, I’d like to hear it, because I don’t think so. I think the only thing that stopped it was some of the bravest men that I’ve ever seen in my life charging head-first into the face of death with their firearms.”
He then ripped apart gun control advocates reasoning that less guns will keep people safe.
“I know people will disagree with me, but it just seems like God made men and women, and that night guns made them equal… I think the only way that my mind has been changed is that maybe that until nobody has guns everybody has to have them.”
Hughes was just getting warmed up when terrorists killed 89 people at the concert venue the Bataclan. He said after the attack he carries in his pocket the names of those killed that night.
The band has also posted on their Facebook page bad guys don’t take a day off so neither will they.
Published in Entertainment, Guns
If you haven’t seen Vice’s interview with the band from back in December, I highly recommend it. I really like these guys:
Long way to go for the French but this is a good sign. I sent my Swedish brother-in-law the Amazon link to John Lott’s book, More Guns, Less Crime. I pointed out to him, for example, that people in Malmo, both Muslims and ethnic Swedes who are basic decent citizens, could really help the community and the police keep down the level of raping and other forms of violence and theft. He was aghast, of course. He does not have faith in his fellow Swedes to think they can handle deadly force with good judgment. It seems that all of Europe is of the same mind on this.
Yeah it’s a great heartbreaking interview! Thanks!
You beat me to it, I was just reading the article in the WSJ. I’m not a death-metal fan, but these guys may persuade me to get a t-shirt. Good on them for both their stance & their determination to go back to Paris.
Excellent! I got into them on their Death by Sexy album, it’s super Fun! I’m even more of a fan now. :)
They’re not death metal. They’re more like goofballs who like doing Duran Duran covers. Here’s an original tune from their new album (language warning):
I did see that. It struck me that they did not express any anger towards ISIS.
I never really liked their music, but the singer does lean right, so there’s that. He’s one of those self-proclaimed ‘socially liberal yet fiscally conservative’ people, but I’ll take that over a lefty! His statements about guns are spot on.
Along with Hughes, the band was founded by Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age. Part of a sub-genre known as desert rock. Cool stuff and worth checking out if you like rock. Certainly better than anything that won an award at last night’s Grammys.
Thanks for the correction, just made an assumption from the name. Whatever their musical genre, I’m a fan now.
Homme is also a self-described fiscal conservative but socially liberal.
Just to be clear, the Eagles of Death Metal are not a death metal band. More like party rock.
Yup! Amazon is $9.49 richer now.
My thoughts were similar. War & defense are a world away from enjoying a rock concert, but someone has to defend rock concerts from really evil people & really evil deeds. Maybe this experience will make them grow up into anger. This statement about gun control suggests that.
It also recalls the classier, less full-of-earnest-humanity, My policy on gun control is, if there are guns, I wanna be in control of them. But that was Mr. Eastwood-
I can’t remember the exact reference now, but someone heard their music and called them “the Eagles of death metal”, comparing them to the band The Eagles, but with a death metal twist. As kind of a joke.
I listened to a few of their songs because I’m a fan of QOTSA. I do think Hughes pretty nicely sums up the points against gun control, and, essentially, self-defense – as long as there are bad guys, we have to be able to defend ourselves, and no, the police can’t do that for us.
Conservatives need to do a better job of reaching out to people who identify with this view. Would be able to cast a wider net.
#America :)
yeah, and the way he says it it’s going to be fun to see the left try to fight it.
We already get the ones we can get. For some of them, their social liberalism is just more important than their otherwise right wing views. I’ve met some Millenials like that. Stuff like “gay” just overrides everything else. For some, it’s a holy crusade. So I think we’re already getting the ones that can be gotten, and shouldn’t waste too many resources on those that mostly can’t.
Sing it, sister!
It’s not that bad, trust me. I’ve spent my college years turning people around–it’s not that hard to reason with people if you’re sympathetic to their actual experience & make sense. I do it now, too. & if you just ask around on Ricochet–I ain’t Mr. popular.
We live in a world where celebrity endorsement matters. Like it or not, the reality is that we need non-politician celebrities to endorse some of our causes. And we don’t need to be monolithic either. If guys like Hughes and Homme would come out in favor of capitalism, limited spending, gun rights, etc., couldn’t we agree to disagree on gay marriage? I’m not saying they get to dictate the party platform, but wouldn’t we welcome them?
The GOP has no image outside of its politicians. And the image we do have is, well, not very good. We need better spokespeople than Ted Nugent and Marie Osmund.