Take Out The Gunman

Album: La Gargola (2014)
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  • This song addresses the issues of guns and mass shootings, but according to drummer Sam Loeffler it's also about more than that. "It is hitting a little close to home," he explained. "However, certainly it's about that but the real point is about how the media sensationalizes it and how it perpetuates it, because we talk about it so much and concentrate on it so much, which is — when you put something on television, it just becomes bigger than life and then, you know, the age-old question is, if you don't put it on TV and nobody knows about it, will it happen less? I don't know."

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