The following is a statement from rock star Ted Nugent. This was very well said.
WACO, Texas (CNN) -- Zero tolerance, huh? Gun-free zones, huh? Try this on for size: Columbine gun-free zone, New York City pizza shop gun-free zone, Luby's Cafeteria gun-free zone, Amish school in Pennsylvania gun-free zone and now Virginia Tech gun-free zone.
Anybody see what the evil Brady Campaign and other anti-gun cults have created? I personally have zero tolerance for evil and denial. And America had best wake up real fast that the brain-dead celebration of unarmed helplessness will get you killed every time, and I've about had enough of it.
Nearly a decade ago, a Springfield, Oregon, high schooler, a hunter familiar with firearms, was able to bring an unfolding rampage to an abrupt end when he identified a gunman attempting to reload his .22-caliber rifle, made the tactical decision to make a move and tackled the shooter.
A few years back, an assistant principal at Pearl High School in Mississippi, which was a gun-free zone, retrieved his legally owned Colt .45 from his car and stopped a Columbine wannabe from continuing his massacre at another school after he had killed two and wounded more at Pearl.
At an eighth-grade school dance in Pennsylvania, a boy fatally shot a teacher and wounded two students before the owner of the dance hall brought the killing to a halt with his own gun.
More recently, just a few miles up the road from Virginia Tech, two law school students ran to fetch their legally owned firearm to stop a madman from slaughtering anybody and everybody he pleased. These brave, average, armed citizens neutralized him pronto.
My hero, Dr. Suzanne Gratia Hupp, was not allowed by Texas law to carry her handgun into Luby's Cafeteria that fateful day in 1991, when due to bureaucrat-forced unarmed helplessness she could do nothing to stop satanic George Hennard from killing 23 people and wounding more than 20 others before he shot himself. Hupp was unarmed for no other reason than denial-ridden "feel good" politics.
She has since led the charge for concealed weapon upgrade in Texas, where we can now stop evil. Yet, there are still the mindless puppets of the Brady Campaign and other anti-gun organizations insisting on continuing the gun-free zone insanity by which innocents are forced into unarmed helplessness. Shame on them. Shame on America. Shame on the anti-gunners all.
No one was foolish enough to debate Ryder truck regulations or ammonia nitrate restrictions or a "cult of agriculture fertilizer" following the unabashed evil of Timothy McVeigh's heinous crime against America on that fateful day in Oklahoma City. No one faulted kitchen utensils or other hardware of choice after Jeffrey Dahmer was caught drugging, mutilating, raping, murdering and cannibalizing his victims. Nobody wanted "steak knife control" as they autopsied the dead nurses in Chicago, Illinois, as Richard Speck went on trial for mass murder.
Evil is as evil does, and laws disarming guaranteed victims make evil people very, very happy. Shame on us.
Already spineless gun control advocates are squawking like chickens with their tiny-brained heads chopped off, making political hay over this most recent, devastating Virginia Tech massacre, when in fact it is their own forced gun-free zone policy that enabled the unchallenged methodical murder of 32 people.
Thirty-two people dead on a U.S. college campus pursuing their American Dream, mowed-down over an extended period of time by a lone, non-American gunman in illegal possession of a firearm on campus in defiance of a zero-tolerance gun law. Feel better yet? Didn't think so.
Who doesn't get this? Who has the audacity to demand unarmed helplessness? Who likes dead good guys?
I'll tell you who. People who tramp on the Second Amendment, that's who. People who refuse to accept the self-evident truth that free people have the God-given right to keep and bear arms, to defend themselves and their loved ones. People who are so desperate in their drive to control others, so mindless in their denial that they pretend access to gas causes arson, Ryder trucks and fertilizer cause terrorism, water causes drowning, forks and spoons cause obesity, dialing 911 will somehow save your life, and that their greedy clamoring to "feel good" is more important than admitting that armed citizens are much better equipped to stop evil than unarmed, helpless ones.
Pray for the families of victims everywhere, America. Study the methodology of evil. It has a profile, a system, a preferred environment where victims cannot fight back. Embrace the facts, demand upgrade and be certain that your children's school has a better plan than Virginia Tech or Columbine. Eliminate the insanity of gun-free zones, which will never, ever be gun-free zones. They will only be good guy gun-free zones, and that is a recipe for disaster written in blood on the altar of denial. I, for one, refuse to genuflect there.
Hah...I wonder what Rosie O'Porky thinks about him...
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:)ROSIE O'PORKY!!!! LOL!!!!! I am totally going to use that. Right on, LB.
Zero tolerance for evil and denial? Nugent is a complete nugget. Have you been to a Nugent concert lately? He also has zero tolerance for non-whites, anyone who didn't vote for Bush, anyone who questions why we're in Iraq, or anyone who doesn't submit to Republican authority, at least if you judge the man by his words. Seriously, this is the EXPLICIT theme of his performances these days. I mean, blind, unquestioning obedience to any authority (well, as long as it's Republican)? And people agree with this? How American is that?
The Nugg assumes a Libertarian pose, but the fact that Libertarians embrace a bigoted buffoon like this goes to show why people voted for Ralph Nader at a 7 to 1 clip over the Libertarian in the 2000 presidential election. Nader even got more votes in 2004, when most of those who voted for Nader in 2000 got wise to the fact that Bush helped finance Nader in 2000 and that a vote for Nader was (in both 2000 and 2004) a vote for Bush. And Nader is a damn flake anyway.
As far as the gun article goes, putting a gun in every person's hand in every conceivable setting isn't going to make us any safer either. This flies in the face of logic. More guns = more gun violence. How does this not make complete sense? Yeah, people kill people. Granted. Anyone notice there are quite a few f***ed people out there? More guns also = more f***ed up people with guns because you can bet encouraging more gun ownership than we already do will result in more people owning guns. That's a recipe for chaos. Va. Tech showed it only takes one person at a particualar time to make all hell break loose.
No serious politician is advocating taking guns away. Nobody can win an election on that platform. But some gun control measures aren't such bad ideas. For example high-capacity magazines like those used by Cho at Va. Tech were illegal until three years ago. If he'd had to stop and reload in front of a class of even unarmed people, he could possibly have been subdued and some lives could have been saved. If there were no restrictions on carrying guns on college campuses (for example), a story like Va. Tech wouldn't be unusual or particularly newsworthy. Carnage like that would be a part of the fabric of our society, instead of a sad anomaly. The real culprit here was mental illness and this kid's utter lack of humanity. It wouldn't make me feel safer at a football game if I knew that drunk troglodyte three seats down from me was packing. Crazy stuff like Va. Tech happens. Unfortunately, it's part of the human experience. A society in which everyone carries gun would be infinitely more frightening than what we have now.
Ok, so you make some good points Mr. Anonymous... or is it Mrs. Anonymous? Hah! Bonus points for using the word "troglodyte". Anyway, it's an unfortunate fine line...responsible gun ownership and over-the-top psychos. I personally feel that we should all have the right to carry a gun and to be able to protect ourselves should some unforseen situation occur. Unfortunately I guess we can't count on the majority of our society being well adjusted enough to safely carry out that responsibility. What do you do, then? Seems to be a tricky one...
Hey anonymous...sorry it has taken me so long to get back to this so I can squash you.
First of all, more guns does not equal more gun violence. Your thought goes exactly in line with the removing our right to carry movement which is less guns equals less gun violence. Listen, the criminals won't turn in there guns if guns are "removed from society". If there were more guns, nothing would happen because all the criminals already have access to guns.
Second: Cho did have to stop and reload...did you not hear the survivors stories in the last classroom he went through...they repeatedly said "there was a pause during the shooting when he was reloading". I guess you had a hard time processing those words...it's ok...what they meant was he ran out of ammunition, therefore he stopped shooting and RELOADED his guns. I'm not saying he didn't have high capacity magazines, he did, but he still had to stop and reload and nobody did anything. Probably because the government schools they educated them to lye down and take it in a situation where you are being attacked.
Your last statement makes about zero sense. "If there were no restrictions on carrying guns on college campuses (for example), a story like Va. Tech wouldn't be unusual or particularly newsworthy." How do you come to this conclusion??? What you are saying is that killers like Cho actually care if guns are not allowed on a campus? You are saying this would happen all the time??? YOU ARE AN IDIOT. If permited students were allowed to carry, this would be an unusual case...because Cho would have been killed long before taking out 32 people. This case is unusual now, and would be even more unusual if people were allowed to carry on campus.
That society would be more frightening for you because you wouldn't understand it. That is how people work. We are scared of what we don't understand because we are led to believe the opposite through the rest of society or a common misunderstanding. I am scared to death of snakes...I HATE them...to me, all snakes are Diamond back-cotton mouth-copper headed rattlers who want to kill me. I will admit my feelings are that way because I don't understand most snakes. Not all of them are out to get me, heck, even the poisonous ones don't want to be near me just as much as I don't want to be near them.
Educate yourself and you world will be a better world.
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