Uh-oh it happened again it was actually a few weeks ago and I don't know who has paid attention to this story but I have for a while. I've been tracking this story because I feel it's the perfect example to bring up and to present concerning this blog. Here in America we might have seen it various times, they're are highly covered by the media but after a while when it gets boring or there's isn't anymore shock value to it they move on. It's about a school shooting that happened it Tuusula, Finland one of the first of it's kind in that country.

The school shooter Pekka-Eric Auvine shot and killed nine people including himself in his High School. The reason I bring this up is that once again like always some people are putting music under fire after this terrible crime. Before commiting the massacre Auvine has posted several videos on Youtube hinting about him going through with the shooting. Many of those videos showed him firing handguns, various videos showing or involving death. Before actually going to school and openening fire Auvine created a new alias called sturmgeit 89 (meaning storm spirit in German) posted a video named Jokela High School Massacre, were it is accompined by Industrial Rock Band KMFDM's song "Stray Bullet." The High School is shown then dissapears, in the background appears a picture of the school shooter in a red screen pointing a gun at the screen. The song by KMFDM had also been used by Columbine shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were they quoted some of their lyrics. Now once again KMFDM has come under critisizim for having their music once again connected to a violent crime.

Besides KMFDM another band STURMGEIST from Germany has also been blamed for what occured because they shared the same name that the school shooter decided to use to post his video before the shooting. Frontman of STURMGEIST, Cornelius von Jackhelln has responded to these allegations saying "Understandably, journalists keep calling me, eager to prove a link between my band and the massacre. However, as an artist, I can neither control the actions of my fans nor be held responsible for them." This statement right here might be the voice of every other artist in the world, their job is to write and perform music not to be looking over each of their fans to see if they're about to go out and do something of this caliber. Jackhelln would go on to say "Knowing the boundary between fiction and reality was always a prerequisite for dealing with dark matters in music, literature, film and video games. It seems obvious that the Tuusula murderer was ignorant about this boundary."

If that doesn't open some eyes and some minds that maybe what these artists are doing aren't what's causing all of these terrible events, then we might as well keep our eyes blind and our minds locked.