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My Gun Control
By Ted Nugent
WashingtonTimes.com
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
matt 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.