New article from Ted Nugent on gun control

[KenpoTex]

NUGENT: My gun control

May 13, 2010
By Ted Nugent

Water, water, everywhere water. Know it, embrace it, manage it or drown. Same goes for cars, trucks, chain saws, knives, crowbars, blowtorches, teakettles and guns. I will not be denied the pragmatic, functional utility of anything based on the inept, clumsy, irresponsible failure of brain-dead, uncoordinated numskulls.



I will not drown; drink and drive; chain-saw massacre anyone; stumble; slice, burn or shoot myself, nor will I ever hold up a bank. So the best advice would be to think, improvise, adapt and overcome, man up, but by all means, leave me alone. You don't ban electric guitars just because someone may have a lapse in logic, goodwill and decency and spontaneously break out into country and Western music. The vast majority of sensible people will use electric guitars as God intended and whip out good, sexy rock 'n' roll licks.


I need my cars, trucks, chain saws, knives, crowbars, blowtorches, scalding-hot water, guitars and guns, thank you. Amazingly, I have mastered them all, and they are all wonderful ingredients for my American dream of rugged individualism, declared independence and self-sufficiency. They all serve me well, and I am not giving up any of them. Ever.


The masses must never be controlled for the sake of the lunatic fringe. Remember "Don't Tread on Me"? Don't.


The National Rifle Association (NRA) was formed 139 years ago. Members of this ultimate "we the people" grass-roots family organization dedicated to the self-evident truth of self-defense will gather together in Charlotte, N.C., May 14 through 16 for our annual meetings to celebrate good over evil. It is a beautiful thing. I will be there.


With NRA memberships increasing and gun and ammo sales and concealed-weapons permits surging at unprecedented rates, never in the history of mankind have more people possessed more firepower and, most significantly, carried more concealed weapons on their persons than today across America.


And the inescapable truth - as FBI crime reports and numerous law enforcement and academic studies conclude - is that more guns clearly equal less crime. Where there are more guns per capita, violent crime goes down, particularly crimes of assault, such as rape, burglary and robbery. This is good. This is what the NRA stands for. Anti-gunners, not so much.
It is indeed Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's gun-ban dream of "gun-free zones" that have proved to be the guaranteed slaughter zones, where the most innocent lives are lost every time. Think Columbine, Virginia Tech, Lane Bryant, Northwest Illinois University, New Jersey, Salt Lake City and Omaha malls, Luby's Cafeteria, Calgary University, Toronto, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Boston, Flight 93, the mayor's office in San Francisco, ad nauseam. Peace and love will get you killed, and unarmed helplessness is a welcome mat for evil. It's common sense unless, of course, your anthem goes "baaa ... baaa ... baaa."


So why in God's good name would any human being wish to force unarmed helplessness on another? That level of cruel indecency and forced victimization is incomprehensible to me and about 100 million Americans who own guns and believe in self-defense. The lunatic-fringe left won't dare touch the issue of gun control. Self-defense is the most powerful, driving instinct in good people everywhere. To deny this is evil personified.
Write this down: Gun-free zones are a felon's playground. Ban gun-free zones now. Join the NRA.


Good people don't want the rapist to succeed. We want him dead. We don't want our homes invaded. We want invaders dead. We don't like carjackers. We like them dead. We don't like armed robbers. We like them dead.


We have examined all the evidence we could possibly need to know that calling 911 is a joke unless, of course, the cops bring a dustpan and a mop to clean up the dead monster we just shot while protecting our families.


The choice is clear: Gun control as forced by the Chuck Schumers and Michael Bloombergs of the world is complicit in every violent crime committed. Conversely, gun control a la Ted Nugent is putting the second shot through the same hole as the first shot, where innocent lives are saved and recidivistic maggots come to a screeching halt, felled by the lovely ballet of good over evil we call the "Double Tap Center Mass Boogie." Learn it, know it, love it, shoot it. Good guys should live, bad guys, not so much.


It is reassuring and ultimately convenient that fresh from escaping the scourge of tyranny and slavery of kings and emperors, our brilliant, sensible Founding Fathers knew it was important to write down the self-evident truth that the right to self-defense is surely a God-given individual right to keep and bear arms.


Write this down, too: "To keep" means it is mine, you can't have it. "Bear" means I've got mine right here on me. "Shall not be infringed" echoes that beautiful "Don't Tread on Me" chorus. Sing it.


I like the U.S. Constitution and our sacred Bill Of Rights, but quite frankly, I don't really need them to know in my heart and soul the list of self-evident truths therein. Those came from thinking, common-sense men who refused to be helpless, dependent slaves to anyone or anything. Those truths are all burned forever into my soul. I live them, no matter what.


Meanwhile, in order to stop the drowning and murders, I will work on banning water; President Obama can try to ban guns. Good luck. Save an innocent life, join the NRA and celebrate 139 years of keeping and bearing. Drive a bad guy nuts. Then shoot him.

Ted Nugent is an unstoppable American rock 'n' roll, sporting and political-activist icon. Author of "Ted, White & Blue: The Nugent Manifesto" and "God, Guns & Rock 'N' Roll" (Regnery Publishing), he serves in the NRA board of directors.

 

[Deaf Smith]

Actually alot of kids drown every year in back yard swimming pools. I do mean ALOT! More die than by guns.

Deaf

 

[girlbug2]

Ted does know how to get a point across. That was eloquently written.

 

[seasoned]

The government has been serving the minority of this country for a long time, through special interest groups. We had guns when I was a kid, we pledged allegiance to our flag every morning in school, hell we even prayed in school. The one thing that has changed over my 67 years on earth is the music, and the movies. When I was a kid my parents didn't have to monitor what we watched or listened to. Nowadays that's all parents do, is it no wonder there is so much violence, when it is in our face every time we turn around. The music sings about killing, the movies show killing and shooting as a way of life, and call it entertainment. What to do, I don't have a clue. Some of these same people that are trying to separate us from the things I grew up with, decency, patriotism, respect and a sense of a God, are the ones complaining the most. Mood, "pissed off", rant over..............

 

[Andy Moynihan]

The government has been serving the minority of this country for a long time, through special interest groups. We had guns when I was a kid, we pledged allegiance to our flag every morning in school, hell we even prayed in school. The one thing that has changed over my 67 years on earth is the music, and the movies. When I was a kid my parents didn't have to monitor what we watched or listened to. Nowadays that's all parents do, is it no wonder there is so much violence, when it is in our face every time we turn around. The music sings about killing, the movies show killing and shooting as a way of life, and call it entertainment. What to do, I don't have a clue. Some of these same people that are trying to separate us from the things I grew up with, decency, patriotism, respect and a sense of a God, are the ones complaining the most. Mood, "pissed off", rant over..............

Won't let me rep you so soon again, but giving you a "Roger That" just the same

 

[JDenver]

Actually alot of kids drown every year in back yard swimming pools. I do mean ALOT! More die than by guns.

Deaf

Let's not be naive though. This type of argument will go around in circles forever; 'lots of things are dangerous' AND 'those things aren't purposefully made to kill things like guns are'.

Personally, I think the best thing the movement for gun ownership could ever do in the US is distance itself from a guy like Ted Nugent.

 

[tellner]

Like pretty much everything Ted Nugent has written on the subject it's not an "article". It's a "screed" designed to get Amens from the choir. Not that he's necessarily wrong.

But let's look at what's really happening here.

The last major piece of gun control legislation that got floated was Gonzalez' attempt to let the Attorney General make a list of who was and wasn't allowed to possess firearms. He tried to get Democrats to sponsor it. None of them would. So it died.

The best you can say for Bush is that he let the ugly gun ban quietly lapse even though he said he'd sign an extension if it hit his desk.

Under Obama we've seen just about the only rollback of a gun control law in any of our lifetimes. He signed a Bill permitting possession of firearms in the National Parks. When belligerent teabaggers showed up outside events with guns he didn't have the police or Secret Service clear them away. He said it was perfectly legal. Compare and contrast to Bush's Two Minute Hate rallies where attendees and people nearby were screened for personal loyalty to the then-President.

If the current crop of Republicans Lite (DLC Obama/Clinton/Reid Democrats) wanted to steal your guns and contaminate your Precious Bodily Fluids they would have jumped on the fizzled car bomb. They haven't. In fact, while the NRA wants to wait until someone has actually had a trial before losing his RKBA its members want to strip the unconvicted of those rights on mere suspicion they might be thinking bad thoughts.

Meanwhile, Lieberman and McCain - not Democrats - have introduced the The Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention and Prosecution Act of 2010 authorizing the Attorney General to unilaterally strip anyone of all civil rights with no recourse, no due process, no probable cause, to be held without a trial forever.

Face it. Gun control is still a wedge issue for a certain segment of the Republican Party base. It isn't one for the Democrats who realize they have nothing to gain by pushing it.