Reno attorneys Ken McKenna and Tim Post began to examine the music, lyrics and album cover for suicidal messages. They say they found references to blood, killing and the implications of suicide in the lyrics, but no explicit directives to take one's life. Those they claim to have found in the music and album cover's subliminal messages. Ms. Fulstone, the rock group's attorney, says there are no subliminal messages in the music. Even if subliminals are present they do not cause suicide, Ms. Fulstone says.
People write about, sing about serious subjects.
I just don't think art causes anti-social activity. The reasons for the shootings may be more easily found in the lives of the two hopeless young men already deeply marked by broken families, family violence and failure. Raymond Belknap's life, like James Vance's, was hard. He had three stepfathers and was beaten by the third, according to the court records. He was on probation for stealing money and under investigation for animal torture after shooting at neighbor's animals with a dart gun.