Marilyn Manson pointed a fake semi-automatic rifle and pretended to spray the crowd with bullets during a concert in San Bernardino on Sunday.
The concert took place at the Glen Helen Amphitheater in Devore, California, about ten miles from the scene of the terrorist shooting in which 14 were murdered at a holiday party in December 2015.
Pictures showed Manson, dressed in his customary outlandish stage make-up, wielding the weapon.
Marilyn Manson points fake gun at concert audience in San Bernadino on Sunday night… two years after county was scene of deadly mass shooting
A microphone was attached to the rifle, which Manson sang his track We Know Where You F****** Live into.
The 48-year-old, born Brian Hugh Warner, sat in a wheelchair, after crushing his leg in an accident when an oversized pistol stage prop fell on him in September.
The concert came the same day a gunman killed 26 worshippers in a church in Texas, wounding many more.
Always deliberately controversial, Manson was infamously blamed for the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, and has claimed the shooting ‘destroyed’ his career.
At the time, many believed the shooters wore Manson T-shirts during the killings and that they were inspired by the Lord of Darkness.
Deliberately controversial: Pictures showed Manson, dressed in his customary outlandish stage make-up, wielding the weapon as he sprayed the crowd with fake bullets
Bad taste: A microphone was attached to the rifle, which Manson sang his track We Know Where You F****** Live into
Recovering: The 48-year-old, born Brian Hugh Warner, sat in a wheelchair, after crushing his leg in an accident when an oversized pistol stage prop fell on him in September
These reports were not found to be true, but people started protesting Manson’s shows because they held him partially responsible for the deaths of 15 high schoolers.
Manson, 48, spoke to The Guardian earlier this year about the shooting while promoting his new album Heaven Upside Down: ‘Honestly, the Columbine era destroyed my entire career at the time.’
He continued: ‘Give them the money and let them make their own choice: guns or records. If [the Columbine killers] had just bought my records, they would be better off.
‘Certain people blame me for the shootings at schools – I think my numbers are low, and hopefully they go up on this record.’