By Mike Neely

May 1, 2007 8:24 PM | Link to this

Ted Nugent's logic here is unassailable. "No Firearms" signs, and "Gun free zones" are just advertisments proclaiming for all to see that the people who are cooped up in a designated area are all defenseless and easy prey. They are free fire zones for terrorists and lunatics. This insane practice of signage is tantamount to issuing an open invitation to those sick individuals who would seek to create death, destruction and mayhem.

Statistics clearly show that I am in more danger in a "gun free zone" than I am at a gun show, where there are lots of guns or at a shooting range where everybody is carrying loaded firearms.

Ask yourself this: For how long do you think a lunatic "shooting spree" would go on if it happened in a Sherrif's office or police station? Arms raise the risk to perpetrators immensely. Disarmament gives perpetrators an undefended herd to prey upon.

By Rob

Apr 25, 2007 6:17 PM | Link to this

I agree with Nugent, but there was really no need to attack Sarah Brady as "evil." Americans who advocate gun control are generally just misguided, not evil. Frankly, I think Nugent's venomous attacks on Sarah Brady are what's evil.

By Frank "Gunner" Slaby

Apr 25, 2007 6:16 PM | Link to this

James:

No appology necessary, I was not offended. I'm actually glad you used the term "redneck;" it helps to illustrate how the liberal media and self-anointed-left-wing-elitest-leaders have sucsessfully demonized the character of gun owners into a negative stereotype. The technique is used to make the opposition seem sub-human, or at least, different and having less value than the "select group."

Before I go any further, James, I really beleive that you are above this and you're only repeating what you've been bombarded with.

If you look at propaganda posters from WWII (both allied and axis) you see (very clearly) the lenghts people will go to dehumanize the enemy. The Nazis did it against the Jews depicting them as neandrathal - and worse. The Americans made posters with a Japanese soldier (sterotypical imiage of exagerated buckteeth, squinty eys,and glasses) proudly displaying a skewered baby on his bayoneted rifle.

In the case of the Hollywood crowd, left wing media, and anti-gunners like Fienstine, Schummer, Boxer, Bloomberg, Clinton, Rosie O'Donnel, George Soros, et. al., they ALL tend to protray themselves as intelectual, refined, educated, and far above the evolutionary level of "common people." Of course one group of "common people" that seems to be exempt from politically correct protection is rednecks. The ignorant "sheeple" now typically associate firearms with toothless cretins (who mary their first cousins) brandishing a gun in one hand and a Confederate Battle Flag in the other. They could not be further from the truth...

Not well known among the masses is that most of the above listed folks have 24/7 armed protection. (Fienstein has been know to pack heat herself.) They feel that they desevere to have body guards and YOU (and I) don't. Taxpayers foot the bill for the elected officials. We are not worthy in their eyes and not to be trusted with any means to defend ourselves. Nanny government at work.

One of my favorite quotes, "The greatest impediment to progress is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge."

Need to go, I have a couple of AK-47s I'm building in the garage and need to finish 'em...

By Frank "Gunner" Slaby

Apr 25, 2007 5:27 PM | Link to this

Burt:

I'd hope that you knew how to use a dictonary, but since you asked, "ad hominem, Latin: To the man; appealing to personal interest, prejudices, or emotions rather than to reason."

An ad hominem attack is most often used when the "attacking" person runs out of verbal "ammunition" in a battle of wits with someone who is clearly making his point. Liberals and conservatives are equally guilty.

By justin

Apr 25, 2007 4:09 PM | Link to this

Gun control would have zero effect on the shootings at VT. The handguns recovered from the scene had their serial numbers filed off. This suggests that the handguns were purchased illegally! No amount of "gun control" is going to prevent a determined criminal from purchasing his or her "tool" for the job. You could ban guns altogether, and this massacre would still have taken place becuase the guns were purchased ILLEGALLY! Gun control only restricts those who want to legally purchase guns. We have the God-given right to defend ourselves, our families, and our property by any means necessary. If that means that I must promote the use of a knife, a gun, or a fist, then so be it.

By alex

Apr 25, 2007 3:53 PM | Link to this

Ted...lost again. This coming from a man who crapped on himself and acted crazy to avoid Vietnam. What a loser. I for one am tired of him being called "The Texas Mad man" He is not a Texan. Just another yankee who is trying to make you see anything but the truth.

By Jeffrey

Apr 25, 2007 1:56 PM | Link to this

Let's just give everybody a gun, Lord knows its our constitutional right! Just give everyone a gun, and let the evolution take place, now thats the ticket...

By Rhys VanderMartin

Apr 25, 2007 1:16 PM | Link to this

Your comments are right on the mark. People must think in the long term not just the short term of "Oh these people died! What will we do?! I know. LET'S BAN GUNS AND DENY PEOPLE THE RIGHT TO DEFEND THEMSELVES!!!!!! Criminals thrive on an unarmed populace because of they try to rob a person that has a gun they WILL regret it. These Brady loyalists are misguided and in my opinion "ralatively stupid". They don't understand because they lead a sheltered life. Knowledge is power and it is a power all law abiding citizens should have over the criminal scum of this earth and the dregs of society. Guns are a tool. And like all tools they can't be used without a human operator. This gives truth and fact to the statement that "Guns don't kill people, People kill people". This should be the end of the arguement. But I know that there are closed minded, ignorant and sheltered people out there who will continue to argue their misguided and foolish point.

Give the law abiding citizens the power. Not just the Government. This country was founded on the basis of sharing power amongst the people, not a monolithic dictatorship.

I challenge all of you "Gun Control" proponents to try exercising your Second Amendment rights just once. You will find that they are more useful in maintaining your First Amendment rights than just free speech alone. If you don't like it after trying it just take your gun back to the Pawn Shop and get a refund. Don't tell me how to run my life.

By Kim

Apr 25, 2007 11:43 AM | Link to this

Im thinking that we should never let any one walk down the street carrying a fire arm, I mean lets think about this! I think we should just let the criminals, whom clearly we cant stop, be our protectors. I mean they are always there before the police. This is as insane an argument as "which came first the chicken or the egg". If you are a god fearing person you know the answer to that question and if you are a smart person, you know that gun control is only a small part of the solution. It is important to remember the lives that were lost would not have been lost if someone knew ahead of time what this idiot was about to do. No one knew that! and lets just say someone did know! What were they willing to do to stop it? I say guns save lives. It is people that kill people that is the on going problem. People do not take enough responibility for their own actions, they would rather kill them selves than be held accountable, for the sins against humanity. There is no easy solution, if there were there would be no drug dealers, theives, even liars! and most certainly there would be no VT massacres. One thing that I do know, without guns who would save us? Clearly everyone at VT abided by the rules except the one idiot that killed everyone. What is the problem here? The problem is, if one other person would have had just one firearm, someone properly trained, in that room, this would have ended with alot less tradgedy. Love your columns Ted. Keep up the good work.

By Burt

Apr 25, 2007 11:06 AM | Link to this

What exactly is a ad homonim attack?