King 810 vocalist David Gunn was unapologetic in a recent statement he shared regarding a show in Chicago, IL being cancelled due to the band’s usage of guns and violent imagery. It’s a viewpoint he has since doubled down on, with the following statement now being shared:
“You know you’re fucked up when @foxnews won’t run your statement. So to those who continue to harp on this…
It’s not about a band or a show or a city or a cancellation.
It’s about lying down or not.
They have been chipping away at our Constitution for years.
Sooner or later we will wake up to an unrecognizable set of bullshit we have to live by and we will have no idea how we got here.
History is full of examples of this “progressive” way of thinking.
None have worked. All have ended in mass conflict or death. None have sustained, with the exception of maybe North Korea.
Progress is not a subjective opinion.
You cannot, in a vacuum, parrot off ignorant ideas like taking guns away, or college safe zones, or gender pronouns, and call it progress.
You must treat the cause not the symptom.
When it is perfectly fine to use racial discrimination against somebody yet it is legally mandated that teachers acknowledge students as non-gender specific animals certain days of the week, a certain outcome is created.
Movement is not achievement.
Change is not progress.
So keep “championing” from your middle class, white suburban house with the big screen and the internet and the Starbucks.
I’ve been shot twice in the neighborhood I live in.
I’ll keep the guns just in case.
@dkgunn #KING810 #KING810family”
