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Dave Mustaine of Megadeth went on a rant blaming President Barack Obama for the recent spate of mass shootings in the U.S.

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Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine should stick to screeching lyrics and not political commentary, says one of the victims of the Aurora massacre.

Mustaine angered many â€" including shooting victim Carli Richards for his anti-President Obama rant at Megadeth’s Aug. 7 concert in Singapore. The 50-year-old rocker went spoke out between songs, accusing the president of “staging” the recent spate of mass murders across the U.S. to pass a gun ban.

“Some people think the president is a good scapegoat but he didn't shoot me," Richards, who is recovering from several gunshot wounds, told TMZ.

As everyone but Mustaine seems to have heard, it’s James Holmes, not Obama, who’s accused of opening fire during during a midnight screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” at the Aurora Century 16 movie theater in the July 20 attack.

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Photo taken by Carli Richards showing her gun shot wounds.

“Everybody is emotional at this time and needs to blame somebody, I guess,” Richards told the gossip website. “I don't think they realize the consequences of not being responsible for your own actions and James Holmes needs to be held accountable for his, to whatever way the justice system deems fit."

Mustaine’s remarks went viral in a video of the Singapore concert flagged Wednesday by heavy metal news site Blabbermouth.net.

“Back in my country, my president is trying to pass a gun ban, so he's staging all of these murders,” Mustaine told the crowd. “Like the 'Fast And Furious' thing down at the border and Aurora, Colorado, all the people that were killed there and now the beautiful people at the Sikh temple."

Accused ‘Dark Knight’ shooter James Holmes in court July 23.

The heavy metal singer-guitarist, who once wrote the lyrics to the anti-George H.W. Bush administration song "Foreclosure of a Dream," has shown over the course of this year that he has an ax to grind with the Democratic president.

He outed himself as a birther in March when he told a Canadian talk show that he believes Obama was not really born in the United States.

"[I have] a lot of questions about him, but certainly not where he was born," Mustaine said on “The Hour.” "I know he was born somewhere else than America.”

This from a man man who reported for MTV from the Democratic National Convention at Madison Square Garden during the 1992 election.

Mustaine, though, has admitted in interviews over recent years that he has changed many of his opinions since he ditched drugs and alcohol and became a born-again Christian.

Earlier this month, Mustaine regurgitated his birther views in an interview with conspiracy theorist radio host Alex Jones.

"Why hasn't somebody moved to impeach this man?" Mustaine said on Jones’ Infowars show. "With all of the proof about his birth certificate being fake. And you see the signs in Kenya that say 'the birthplace of Barack Obama.' Hello?! C'mon, guys. How stupid are we right now?”

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