Eagles Of Death Metal (Part Two)
(Jesse writes out his personal email for the photographer, and invites him to take some more shots of the band next time they’re back in the UK. Photographer leaves…)
So what about your guns?
My guns I take very seriously. I often am very cautious about talking about it…
Yeah it’s quite a sensitive issue…
I’m not here to shove my politics down anyone’s throat, even if I believe I’m right. England’s a different world away from America and there’s really no comparison. Even though England has completely banned guns and is in the grips of the greatest crimewave it’s ever experienced, and the biggest watershed industry in your country is machine shops turning replica guns into real ones and there are now more automatic handguns in the hands of criminals at arrests than before. But, that has nothing to do with anything you know, I woke up in the middle of the night once and I was married and a man in black was pulling the covers off my wife – she used to make me lock my guns – and at that moment I realised that nobody knows what the fuck they’re talking about when it comes to firearms unless they have any reason to use them.
Jesus. What happened? Did you chase him out?
I chased him out, but it was a scary night and he came back the next day. The story was interesting in the way that it came out, but the cops had told us that we must have been being stalked. It had me freaked the fuck out, dude. I had a gun on me the rest of the night, because my son and my wife couldn’t fucking go to sleep unless I did that. I’m making breakfast for my son and I turn with the pan to put the eggs on his high-chair tray; the dude who had been in the night before was looking through my window like this [cups his hands over his eyes]. Well, I decided right then and there that one of us is coming back, and that it sure as shit wasn’t ever gonna be him. So I ran for my door and I was shaking, I was adrenaline-pumped, man, and I couldn’t get my finger inside the trigger-guard, because it’s a Walther PPK that I was using – that’s the James Bond gun – I couldn’t get it inside the guard, it’s a small gun and I was just too fucking… I literally was like this [makes two fists and grimaces]. So I got up to him and when I got on him I grabbed him by the back of his head and went BOOM! Split his fucking face open and I could smell the blood. I could smell it. And I understand blood lust, at that moment I understood what happened to soldiers in ancient battle when they became filled with the lust of blood. It changes your body chemistry like I think the way cocaine does, man. He collapsed and then I went cold. I’m not proud or ashamed of this, but he was trying to get up and he was in a fucking vicious daze and he was blowing bubbles of blood out of his mouth and I grabbed him by his hair again and I lifted his head up to me and I cocked my gun and I was lowering it, and my neighbour tackled me. Turned out, the neighbours had a party, we had been on vacation – my uncle had died, that’s why we’d come home early – and he was just in my house. Drunk. Out of his mind. Most rapes and murders occur as a secondary crime during a primary act, like a robbery. That’s the statistics. No-one intends to rape, they’re robbing someone and then helpless victim, they’re overcome with the feeling… whatever… That’s what happened to him, and uh, the next day he wondered where the fuck he had been and he wandered back over to my place. Big mistake. It just taught me something. When the cops turned up they said “Next time, shoot that motherfucker, because regardless of what the law says, we ain’t gonna be here ever except for to take a report.”
Eagles Of Death Metal – ‘Anything ‘cept The Truth’
They actually said that?
That’s the truth. There’s no psychic cops. Not that I know of. Pretty sure. And guns then, I understood what guns were about. Guns aren’t about hunting. They’re really not about self-defence. If every household in England had a gun, I doubt very seriously that Scotland Yard would have arrested your MP and dragged them into jail for simply possibly giving accurate information to the press. You know what I mean? People are very emboldened with a weaker subject. Period. Men who would never commit violence against a woman; sometimes in a rage when their women are at their most helpless, that’s when they will commit their act of aggression. They don’t mean it. And I know for a fact that bad guys sure like it when the good guys don’t have guns. You know what I mean? The whole point of Runnymede my friend was to make sure that the King couldn’t do shit like strip us of our swords. But then again, I like to have a discussion like that without telling people that they’re either a Democrat or a Republican. That’s a problem I have with politics right now. I’m a Conservative, I tend to vote Republican most of the time, but that doesn’t mean shit to me. I don’t feel like just because movie stars like a Democrat, that means I’ve got to like them. 9 times out of ten, a movie star is someone who is a paid person pretending to be someone they’re not so they are totally phony professionally so therefore why would I give a fuck what they think? They don’t know what to think unless someone writes it for them. Unless like, they wrote AND directed the movie.
What do you think of Obama then? Do you think he’s going to change things?
I have to be very careful here, and I mean this in no way of disrespect, but in order to be a man who practises what I preach, I can only say that the people of America have spoken and that is my President. I can’t speak ill of him, outside of the nest. That being said. Of course he has the potential to change things, but change it to what? Hitler changed things – I’m not comparing him to Hitler.
No, ok.
I’m just simply saying, in the worst extreme, change for its own sake is redundant and not necessarily a good thing. I don’t believe anything’s free, and I don’t believe you’re entitled to anything but opportunity, and I believe that truly, the only moral right and purpose of Government is to ensure and guarantee opportunity and justice. Period. They’re not there to be our parents. They’re not there to give us anything.
That’s kind of what has happened in this country.
It’s terrible. The Government doesn’t have anything to give, except for what they take, and I think we have been invited to corrupt ourselves as a people. All the cultures of the world have corrupted themselves and are becoming our worst lowest aspects of our desires. We want shit for free. We’re angry because we feel like we haven’t gotten something, and we want the Government to give it to us, and we’re jealous and bitter at rich people. So we want them to pay. That is the worst, the worst of anybody. I don’t really believe that you should be punished for being successful…
Next, Jesse tackles JFK and Mickey Mouse…
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