May, 1999: Manson also cancel five dates on the tour starting in May. In this month's edition of Rolling Stone Marilyn Manson writes about the Columbine High School Slaughter :
is sad to think that the first people on Earth did not need any book, movie, game or music to inspire cold-blooded murder. The day that Cain emptied his brother Abel's brains, the only motivation he neededwere fans, that gives them no excuse, nor does it mean that music is guilty ... I think the National Rifle Association is too powerful to blame, so most choose Doom, The Basketball Diaries or your same magazine ... In my work I examine how America we live, and I've always tried to show people that the devil we blame our atrocities on is really all of us. This is why we do not expect the world to come from nothing in itself ... is happening every day for a long time.
