Rock music legend Ted Nugent is one of the strongest voices in defense of the Second Amendment and as the latest debate over proposed gun control legislation plays out, Nugent is making his voice heard loud and clear.
Earlier in the week, Nugent engaged in a feisty debate with CNN host and gun control advocate Piers Morgan. Despite the push for more restrictions on gun rights in Washington and in states around the country, Nugent fired back with a vigorous defense of what he says is the overwhelming majority of gun owners.
“99.99 percent of the gun owners of America are wonderful people that you are hanging around with here today, perfectly safe, perfectly harmless, wonderful, loving, giving, generous caring people. Would you leave us the hell alone?” demanded Nugent. “Go after the nutjobs. Go after the murderers, because I don’t know any.”
Nugent, who is also a National Rifle Association board member and now a WND.com columnist, was typically straight-talking with us as he assessed his confrontation with Morgan.
“I am convinced that Piers Morgan was sent by God to represent everything that doesn’t agree with Ted Nugent, because you’ve got to be the devil’s advocate or the devil to argue with me,” said Nugent. “I’m a simple man. I’m 64 years clean and sober. I never went to college because I was too busy learning stuff. The stuff I learned, I had to bend Piers over the other night and deposit it posthaste.
“In fact, I’m saving money on dog food this week because I’m just letting my three Labradors lick the shrapnel from Piers’s skull out of my boot cleats,” he said.
Nugent then explained why he believes history and practice prove that taking away guns never mean greater safety for the people.
“If you try to argue that the Chicago, Mexico, Washington, D.C., Rwanda gun-free zone is somehow desirable, then you are either as equally evil as the murderers that slaughter innocent people in those gun-free zones or you are opening the door and rolling out the red carpet, that is red because it’s saturated with the blood of innocent victims that are piled higher in gun-free zones than anywhere in the world,” said Nugent.
“Anybody that dares debate me about what the Second Amendment means and whether free Americans have the right to keep and bear arms as a gift from God, a right from God as guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution, I will do to you what I did to Piers. I will embarrass you and I will make you look like some subservient sheep from England,” said Nugent.
The very first thing Nugent does in his new column is attack the premise that some firearms can be restricted because no one supposedly needs them.
“Common sense people know it’s not the Bill of Needs. Common sense people know you don’t need two homes and you don’t need more than one TV. Common sense people know that quality of life and freedom has absolutely nothing to do with needs,” said Nugent. “Then when you scrutinize the self-evident truth of God-given individual rights, the Founding Fathers wrote it down, not because they got together and had a good idea. They knew that the king denied these self-evident truths and these God-given individual rights. So we wrote down the self-evident, truth-based God-given rights that we the people in this new land, free of kings, free of emperors, free of tyrants, free of slave drivers, that we will exercise our God-given, instinctual, self-evident, truth-based right to self-defense from any evil force that threatens our gift of life from God and especially power-abusing monsters in government.”
Nugent says he also doesn’t buy President Obama’s claim that he’s proposing “common sense” gun restrictions or Obama’s claim that he is a great respecter of the Second Amendment.
“I say sure you are, Mr. President and I’m a gay pirate,” mused Nugent. “One just has to study Barack Obama’s voting record. The Commander-in-Chief will go to the Vietnam Memorial Wall and will put on his community organizer, ACORN, Van Jones, gangland, Chicago, gangster-politic scam best and pretend to show respect for 58,000 heroic American military warriors who gave the ultimate sacrifice fighting Communism. And then President Obama will go back and appoint members of the Communist Party as his czars.
“He will continue to associate communists, publicly admitted communists after visiting the Vietnam Memorial Wall. It doesn’t get any more arrogant. It doesn’t get any more dishonest, and it doesn’t get any more anti-American than this president,” he said.
Nugent says he welcomes the large debate on gun rights because he believes logic, history and “a tsunami of facts” are on his side of the debate. But given the recent election returns and current polling on these gun issues, is he confident that will be enough to win the debate?
“That’s the scary issue right now. It really is a nation divided and it’s never been more divided. The racism that President Obama and Eric ‘Gun-Running’ Holder promote is just heartbreaking and it’s tragic. Those of us that know better have got to constantly expose their ruse and their scam,” said Nugent.
Describing himself as an eternal optimist, Nugent says he believes his side will win what he sees as a fight to preserve our freedoms.
“If it weren’t for my knees and the government my life would be perfect, so I’m going to replace both,” said Nugent. “I use my bully pulpit and every resource that this ‘We the People’ guy has.
“I see a positive reaction. I see people waking up out of the embarrassing doldrums of apathy and I see people re-emerging and participating in this sacred experiment in self-government and becoming engaged. I think that increased engagement is going to cleanse our soul. It’s going to upgrade the quality of life in America,” said Nugent, who wants to see more political leaders like Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
“I see great, great leadership out there but we’ve got to make sure they make policy and not acquiesce to the gangsters in the White House,” he said.
