I realllllllly truely do not want to disrespect anyone. But I would like to RESPECTUFLLY disagree!
As for the ICP stuff, just like the Twilight comments yesterday you can't lump everyone interested in this genre all together.
I am 26 years old.....
but during my teen years I listened to ICP, Marilyn Manson, along with many other "Horrorcore" groups I watched horror movies, played any video game I could get my hands on, and hung out in chat rooms talking to people that were more than twice my age.
My dad was/is an alcoholic, my parents divorced when I was 14, and my mom worked three jobs to raise three kids on her own. I was home alone from 5:30am to about 8:00pm (before and after school but all day during the summer) DAILY all the while listening to horrorcore music and playing video games or chatting online in adult chat rooms.
I DO NOT GO AROUND KILLING PEOPLE nor did I kill people or think about killing people during these years of my life. I don't want a pitty party, it has made me who I am today, a loving stay at home mom to three kids. I do want people to understand that no matter how crappy your background is a person has choices to make.
"Jesse Pomeroy was fourteen when he was arrested in 1874 for the sadistic murder of a four-year-old boy."
"Willie Bosket had committed over two thousand crimes in New York by the time he was fifteen, including stabbing several people." <-also shot a man to death when he was fifteen.
"Cindy Collier was 15 and Shirley Wolf 14 when they started prowling condominiums in California in 1983. They knocked on doors at random to gain admittance. An elderly woman let them in and sat chatting with them as they thought up a plan to steal her car. Shirley grabbed her by the neck while Cindy found a butcher knife and tossed it to her. Shirley stabbed her victim 28 times, even as the old woman begged for her life. They fled the scene, but were soon arrested. Both confessed that the murder was "a Kick" and that they wanted to do another one. They thought it was fun."
"In 1964, when Edmund Kemper was 15, he shot his grandparents, killing them both. He'd been imagining this act for some time and had no regrets."
(snippits from "THE UNTHINKABLE: CHILDREN WHO KILL" By Katherine Ramsland. read more at
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/weird/kids2/index_1.html)
There was no "goth", "emo", "Twilight", "horrorcore", ICP, or video games, around when most of these children were killing. I wonder what society blamed it on back then?
sorry its so long but I could go on for days. Read about Dave Pelzer, spent the vast majority of his youth chained to a toilet forced to eat rotting meat, and drink ammonia when he was not starved by his mother who stabbed him. Yet he never killed anyone. Talk about a background!