Following the 2007 SuccessTech Academy shooting in Cleveland , Ohio , on his radio show Gibson commented " I knew the shooter was white . I knew he would have shot himself . Hip-hoppers do n't do that . They shoot and move on to shoot again . And I could tell right away because he killed himself . Hip hoppers shooters do n't do that . They shoot and move on . " In a 2008 edition of his radio show , Gibson commented on actor Heath Ledger 's death the day before . He opened the segment with funeral music and played a clip of Jake Gyllenhaal 's famous line " I wish I knew how to quit you " from Ledger 's film '' Brokeback Mountain '' ; he then said " Well , I guess he found out how to quit '' you '' . " Among other remarks , Gibson called Ledger a " weirdo " with " a serious drug problem " . The next day , he addressed outcry over his remarks by saying that they were in the context of jokes he had been making for months about '' Brokeback Mountain '' , and that " There 's no point in passing up a good joke . " Gibson later apologized on his television and radio shows
SuccessTech Academy shooting
SuccessTech Academy shooting
John Gibson (political commentator)