Rick Kern/WireImageEagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes ripped the March for Our Lives movement and the survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting as “pathetic and disgusting,” and criticized their protests as “playing hooky.”
In November 2015, Hughes was performing with Eagles of Death Metal at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris when armed terrorists stormed the venue and killed 89 people.
“As the survivor of a mass shooting I can tell you from first-hand experience that all of you protesting and taking days off from school insult the memory of those who were killed and abuse and insult me and every other lover of liberty by your every action,” Hughes writes in an Instagram post.
Hughes also belittles the Parkland survivors’ call for gun control as “the plan of like a kid maybe like a high school student” — “The Whitney Houston song about letting the children lead the way wasn’t actually had [sic] operating paradigm for life,” he writes — and says that gun control did not “protect me and my friends in Paris.”
He continues by calling the students and protestors “disgusting vile abuses of the dead,” and writes that he hopes they “live as long as possible so they can have the maximum amount of time to endure their shame…and be cursed.”
Additionally, Hughes reportedly shared and deleted a widely-circulated photoshopped picture of Parkland student Emma González ripping up the Constitution. A screengrab of that was posted to Twitter. González was actually ripping a shooting target.
Several rock artists have expressed their support for the Parkland students and the March for Our Lives movement, including Pearl Jam, Slash, Jared Leto, Lzzy Hale, Steven Tyler and Nikki Sixx. Additionally, Fall Out Boy headlined an anti-gun violence concert in Washington, D.C. the night before Saturday’s March for Our Lives protests.
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