Sunday, April 29, 2007
Having been an honorary member of the 101st Airborne in Iraq while touring with the USO, and having the amazing experience of training with various elite commando units of the U.S. military and law enforcement, I can truly say I have been to the mountaintop of freedom.
To be in the presence of greatness reminds me to dedicate myself to be the best that I can be.
Though we humans can and do stumble, I learned long ago that a good man gets right back up, dusts himself off and learns from his errors. This I do. It is the essence of quality of life and survival.
To drive this discipline 101 home: There surely is no better routine than firearms training with these masters.
As a hunter and registered gun nut, I will never apologize nor waste my time defending my God-given right to keep and bear arms.
The more and bigger the arms, the better.
Which brings us to the ultimate fun guns of all times, the hot brass rainbow party of fully automatic machine guns.
And I am not talking about your basic deer rifle that Sarah Brady and all the anti-gun nuts call assault weapons and want to ban. I am talking real, honest -to-God military-type assault weapons, the kind that we carried in our Humvee as we drove into Fallujah one night during my most recent visit — blessed weapons for defending ourselves and freedom (which, of course, makes them "defense weapons" not "assault weapons.")
But I like the term "assault weapons" better, if for no other reason than it causes Ted Kennedy and his anti-American, gun-grabbing cult-of-denial clan that much more grief. (If they are so hyper-dedicated to pretend that guns are bad, I wish to increase their unfounded anguish, thank you.)
So on numerous occasions each year, I gather around the Nugent family home campfire here in Texas and back in Michigan, and we shoot machine guns.
Millions of rounds
Like hundreds of thousands of law-abiding American families, military, law enforcement and civilian, we shoot literally hundreds of millions of rounds of ammo through these amazing creations of ballistic art.
My idea of "gun control" is putting as many bullets as I can into the same hole.
These guns are owned legally in most states, and by more than a half million American families without a hitch. The lies about scary guns couldn't be more intentionally deceptive and more regularly misreported by the media.
The number of injuries and deaths each week during machine-gun fun by all of us? None. Zero, zilch, nada. Go figure.
All I know is that when it comes time to have one hell of a fun, laugh-infested Uncle Ted Texas family BBQ party, heroes of law enforcement and military join us for some challenging machine-gun competition.
It is all good. We are busy paving our driveway in assorted brass these days — an environmental upgrade if ever there was one.
Want more gun stats? Visit tednugent.com.
Ted Nugent is a Waco-based musician, television show host and author of "God, Guns and Rock 'n Roll."
Comments
By wade
May 18, 2007 4:20 PM | Link to this
Ted i am 42. grew up listening to your music love how you stand on everything. you are THE GREATEST AMERICAN I KNOW OF. along with the g man. thank you for all you do for this great falling apart country. WADE
By ES
May 16, 2007 9:44 AM | Link to this
Phoenix,
The reason we don't "honor the ten commandments as they were intended for [sic]" is that the Ten Commandments are the dogma of a particular religion. Reference the establishment clause.
Don't say anything about our nation being 'founded on the Ten Commandments,' etc.; our founding fathers were mostly deist or agnostic, and they did not write that first amendment accidentally.
By chris stewart
May 11, 2007 3:40 AM | Link to this
i bought a ak47 for home defense and one night i heard something in the house, i picked up my ak and cocked it and 2 guys went running out the door i fired a clip in the woods and they hit the ground screamming dont shoot the cops came and thanked me for catching 2 guys that had been on a crime spree, they said they beat up other people but my ak47 kicked their***** the 2 guys said they had never been so scared before, the sound of bullets flying by them scared the crap out of them
By Frank "Gunner" Slaby
May 7, 2007 11:42 AM | Link to this
The Phoenix:
Federal firearms laws require dealers to maintain sales records for all guns sold. This information is available to law enforcement authorities as needed to trace criminal use of firearms. Federal Firearms Licensed dealers are required to do a background check on each seller and the buyer has to fill out a form stating that he is mentally competent, not a drug user, not a criminal, etc. If you have never seen the form, do a web search on the BATF site.
Criminals seldom obtain firearms legitemtly through gun dealers or gun shows. Most are obtained by stealing (even from policemen), black market (meaning somebody else stole and sold the gun), or by straw purchase.
Personnally; if I were ever to sell a firearm (not likely), I'd refuse to sell to anyone who looked "shady." By the way, did you know that O.J. Simpson can legally buy a firearm and former LA detective Mark Furman cannot? O.J. was found "not guilty" of murder. Furman was convicted of purgery for giving false testimony under oath.
There are thousands of instances where home owners have sucssessfully defended themselves from intruders - the left wing press seldom reports it. The homeowner does not technically perform a "citizens arrest" at that time, he's simply defending himself according to the law (depending on which state or city he lives).
"Now, take the job of a criminal law attorney away from the courts, and what do you get? A defenseless criminal . When a person commits a crime, he automatically gives up his legal rights as a citizen, and becomes a criminal by law. The criminal should automatically be convicted of his crime, and punishment is swift and severe with justice served." Well, I pretty much agree with you here when there is "overwhelming evidence" that a perpetrator is in fact guilty. Thank goodness neither you nor I have the power to make that happen. Life is not that simple and we are a nation of laws. Our constitution guarentees due process, legal representation, and assumption of innocense until proven otherwise by a jury of his peers.
I have little use for attorneys who defend real criminals who are found "not guilty" by the judge or jury; AND THEN the criminal is freed and commits another crime. Perhaps the attorney should be held accountable and sit in the same cell as the repeat offender.
"Tougher gun sale laws. For example: you sell a gun and it is involved in a crime, you are resposible for the crime the gun was used since you were the seller, not the buyer who is the criminal. The law should dictate you contributed to the cause of a crime being your sale was not justified to the buyer." Have you been following the news for the 10 - 12 years? There have been plenty of lawsuits brought against fireams manufactures and dealers. Federal law now protects gun makers and FFL holders from those frivilous law suits.
The logic of holding the seller or manufacture liable or accountable for the criminal acts of another is flawed. Should we blame a knife and fork because Rosie O'Donnel is a fat pig? Individuals are responsible for their own actions. Yes, any dealer that KNOWINGLY sells to a minor, fellon, or mentally incompetent individual should be prosocuted to the fullest extent of the law.
I did a paper for Business Law titled, "Junk Lawsuits Against the Gun Industry" in college. It covers in detail my opposing argument to your suggestion. Your welocme to read it if you like.
By Will
May 7, 2007 1:15 AM | Link to this
We should rename the 2nd Amendment, the Nugent Amendment!!
By Danny
May 6, 2007 3:13 PM | Link to this
terrorists do not come to America to buy rifles and handguns to shoot down planes, you must be smarter than this aren't you? Can you go down your average Main street U.S.A. and buy a stinger missile? or how about an RPG that would be the terrorists primary weapon for aircraft, not a semi automatic rifle that may have been made 40 years ago (M1 M14 etc.) your "study" is as flawed as your logic. And most importantly READ your constitution! if you did you would see clearly "The right of the PEOPLE to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" not the right of the militia.
if you want a well done video of the the subject ask Penn and Teller.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWeTEXSV7ts
By Joe
May 6, 2007 11:29 AM | Link to this
Well,Well,Well we have the tribe following ole Unka Ted around the internet. Man,do you leaches ever come up for air? Its amazing how ole Unka tells you to do something and you do it. Grow some hair you know where and think for yourselves.As far as Ted being the only supporter of the 2nd that is a crock! Its the grassroots people out there that are getting things done not Ted Nugent. The more he opens his piehole the more he looks like an***** I don't know who at the Waco Tribune received an autographed guitar pick or arrow to let Nugent write for your paper,but I'd reconsider the choice and take him off beofre you lose too many readers! Surely the 6 or 7 blind followers who came here won't be buying your newspaper. They just came here because they were told to. Sad, Sad little people
By Frank Barbera
May 6, 2007 10:43 AM | Link to this
The reasons the anti-gun folks put forth are so pathetic.
Therefore using their logic. We should:
Ban all backyard swimming pools because over 300 children drown in them annually.
Ban and remove all automobiles from the our roads because people drive them when drunk and kill 14,000 other people each year. Or, cause accidents by talking on cellphones while driving. Are YOU one of these??
Ban the game of golf and the possesion of golf clubs because they are used to attack and kill other people.
Ban all baseball bats because they have been used to attack other people.
Ban the police from having guns because in 2006 police accidently shot 400 wrong persons. Many being other policemen.
I am astonished at the twisted thinking of so many well intentioned people who do NOT WANT TO KNOW THE TRUE FACTS.
You worry about terrorists getting guns?? Have no fear because terrorist use BOMBS not guns. BOMBS are more efficient at killing hundred of people at once not just a few one at a time.
One question for you antigunners. If You had a gun and you came home and found someone broke into you house and was about to rape your daughter or wife, would you wait until he slits her throat with a razor before you blow his brains out. Come on folks stop being so melodramatic and get real.
My guns didn't kill anyone on 9/11.
Frankie B.
By Frank "Gunner" Slaby
May 6, 2007 8:37 AM | Link to this
I wrote some comments yesterday but they haven't appeared on the web page. Anybody else have the same experience?
By Gary Stanton
May 6, 2007 12:44 AM | Link to this
James, for your information the first Ten Amendments are about the PEOPLE, they are FOR the people and they are not SINGLE words, they are well thought out and edited SENTENCES. As far as terrorists coming across our southern border, the solution is to secure the border.
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