Ted Nugent: "I'm Rosa Parks with a 12-gauge, and I'm hunting doves next September."

Detroit Free Press ^ | 11/04/03 | CHRIS CHRISTOFF

[freedom44]

Comparing a civil rights icon to hunters' rights, rock star and hunter Ted Nugent turned up the volume Tuesday on a perennial campaign to legalize mourning-dove hunting in Michigan.

Nugent was among those who exhorted several hundred hunters and gun-rights advocates on the Capitol lawn to lobby lawmakers. Three hours later, the House responded by passing a bill to end the state's 98-year ban on hunting mourning doves, which are valued by many for their docile nature and cooing song.

[billorites]

Please help me understand how invoking Rosa Park's name helps the cause of us hunters and gun owners.

[Southack]

Senator Nugent has such a nice ring to it!

[meowmeow]

aww...I kind of like mourning doves. Have a back yard full of them. They are very nice birds; they don't trash the place like grackles or starlings.

So...what do they taste like?

[ErnBatavia]

They abound out here...we also have a September season, but it seems the redtail hawks score more of 'em than the local hunters.

[PhilipFreneau]

>> Please help me understand how invoking Rosa Park's name helps the cause of us hunters and gun owners.

Hunters are tired of sitting in the back of the bus.

[kennyboy509]

Hunting is a god given right as well as owning a weapon.

[Burkeman1]

Leave Ted alone. Nugent means well.

Off topic- due to high cholesteral- I can only eat non fatty meats. That means Venison, Ostrich, Moose, Wild Turkey, and Buffolo (and all the Sardines I can stomach). It is easier to find than you might think. My brothers and I are thinking of taking up Wild Turkey hunting- they are all over the place just 45 minutes outside of Boston.

[ErnBatavia]

So...what do they taste like?
Very similar to these!

[So Cal Rocket]

You have to hunt for Wild Turkey???

[pierrem15]

I'm hunting doves next September

Dang. I thought he was talking about ANSWER.

[Fledermaus]

"Mourning-dove hunting"? Is this writer a Canadian or something?

[freedom44]

Ever tried makers mark?

[Fledermaus]

Oh, that's the species. DOH!

[pierrem15]

partridges are for wimps. Now these...

that's good eatin.

[Billthedrill]

Those groups, including the politically powerful National Rifle Association, view dove hunting as a way to recruit more young people to hunting ranks, and thus to sustain hunting and support for gun rights in the future.

And what a tasty little bit of agitprop this sentence is! Those dastardly NRA people are recruiting our young people! First it'll be doves, then Bambi, then the blood-maddened kiddies will be after good ol' Yogi! The horror! The horror!

Not much meat on these little buggers, but it's delicate and fat-free. I'm only thinking of my health, you know.

[Old Professer]

You ain't lived till you've all but stepped on a covey of quail only to have them take flight right under your nose; that warm feeling down the inside of your leg gets real uncomfortable about an hour later.

[billorites]

"due to high cholesteral- I can only eat non fatty meats"

Can I interest you in the scrod?

[freedom44]

[Burkeman1]

LOL! I knew someone would mention that. A rather tasty bourbon on occassion.