Who is a goth?

In the wake of yet another school shooting, I felt that this would be a good time to address this issue. The goth image is often associated with these massacres. Why? The black clothes, I guess. These incidents are so far from my experience with the whole goth thing that it is almost comical.
As a group, goths tend to be more like sensitive and artistic, nerds. In my clubbing days, the clubs that I always felt safest in were the goth clubs. Ironically, the people looked the scariest, but that is the point. They are mostly people who aren't scary, but want to pretend and they are. I have never seen a fight between a bunch of goths or a headline about a crime wave being committed by a group of goths. If a true goth were to go on a rampage and kill people it would be much cheesier. They wouldn't use guns. The victims would all be drained of their blood by two mysterious wholes or cut down by a replica of a medieval broad sword.
Here are some goths that you may not have been aware of...


The Mona Lisa



The kids from the Harry Potter films



Tyra Banks



Pope Benedict XVI



Claudia Schiffer



and that cute family living next door