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Video: Megadeth Singer Says Obama Staged Aurora Massacre, Sikh Temple Shooting
Dave Mustaine, the lead singer of the heavy metal band Megadeth, told the audience at a show that he believed that President Obama staged the massacre in Aurora and the Sikh temple shooting as a way to pass a gun ban.
"Back in my country, my president"—then Mustaine—puts his finger down his throat like he's gagging—"he's trying to pass a gun ban, so he's staging all of these murders, like the 'Fast And Furious' thing down at the border...Aurora, Colorado, all the people that were killed there...and now the beautiful people at the Sikh temple. I don't know where I'm gonna live if America keeps going the way it's going because it looks like it's turning into Nazi America."
Mustaine was playing at a concert in Singapore (where he also made a joke about how he might end up going to jail for spitting on someone's shoe).
Mustaine has also said that he believes Obama wasn't born in the United States and that he supports Rick Santorum.
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