Canadian Killer Justin Bourque Quotes Megadeth’s “Hook in Mouth” Hours Before Shooting Spree

By now, I’m sure most of you have heard about Justin Bourque, the twenty-four-year-old nutjob who went on a shooting spree yesterday, killing three Canadian police officers while critcally wounding two others. What you may not know is that, as reported by The Daily Mail, Borque had previously posted the lyrics to Dethklok’s “Castratikron”… and that mere hours before he went on the rampage, he posted the lyrics to Megadeth’s “Hook in Mouth” on his Facebook page:

As a metal fan, the concern with something like this (besides the fact that people lost their lives, of course) is that simple-minded politicians and school marms will blame metal for the killer’s actions. And concern is only amplified in this instance, because Bourque was clearly using Megadeth lyrics — from an album with a Vic Rattlehead as a skeleton soldier holding a machine gun on the cover, no less — as his mission statement. Hopefully everyone keeps a cool head about this and realizes that this dude was totally mental, and not receiving messages from Dave Mustaine whenever he played So Far, So Good… So What! backwards or whatever.

Meanwhile, Bourque is still at large. Swell.

Thanks: Justin G.