More Guns, Less Violent Crime as the Bad Guys Run or Die

usnews. ^ | April 20, 2009 | Ted Nugent

[JoeProBono]

Water, water, everywhere water. Know it, embrace it, manage it, or drown. Same goes for cars, trucks, chainsaws, knives, crowbars, blowtorches, and guns. Based on the inept, clumsy, irresponsible failure of brain-dead, uncoordinated numbnuts, I will not be denied the pragmatic, functional utility of anything.

I will not drown, nor will I drink and drive, chainsaw-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 the hell 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 water, cars, trucks, chainsaws, knives, crowbars, blowtorches, and guns. I have mastered them all; 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 any of them up. Ever.

The masses must never be controlled for the sake of the lunatic fringe. Remember "Don't Tread on Me"? Don't.

America has spoken. With guns 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 as FBI crime reports and law enforcement and academic studies conclude, the self-evident truth is that more guns clearly equals less crime. Where there are more guns per capita, violent crime goes down, particularly crimes of assault, like rape, burglary, and robbery. This is good.

It is indeed Ted Kennedy's gun ban dream of GunFreeZones that have proven to be the guaranteed slaughter zones where the most innocent lives are lost. Think Columbine, VA Tech, Lane Bryant, NW IL University, Luby's Cafeteria, NJ, Salt Lake City, and Omaha malls, Calgary University, Toronto, Chicago, Boston, Flight 93, the mayor's office in San Francisco, ad nauseam. Peace and love will get you killed, and unarmed helplessness is bad. 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 100,000,000 Americans who own guns. Self-defense is the most powerful, driving instinct of good people everywhere. To deny this is evil personified. Write this down—GunFreeZones are a felon's playgrounds. Ban GunFreeZones now.

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 need to know that calling 911 is a joke, unless of course they bring a dustpan and a mop to clean up the dead monster we just shot while protecting our family.

The choice is clear: Gun control as forced by the Chuck Schumers 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 scourges of tyranny, slavery, 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—"keep" means it is mine, you can't have it. "Bear" means I've got them right here on me. "Shall not be infringed" echoes that beautiful "Don't Tread On Me" chorus.

I like the U.S. Constitution and our sacred Bill of Rights but, quite frankly, I don't really need them in order 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. These truths are all burned forever on my soul. I live them, no matter what.

Meanwhile, in order to stop the drowning and murders, I will work on banning water; Obama can try to ban guns. Good luck.

[Southack]

Gotta love Nugent!

...now consider some redneck car armor for your family/commuter vehicle. Used police surplus ballistic body armor panels (soft armor) can be found online for as little as $25 each. Stuff them behind your door and rear hatch interior panels, plus in front/under your driver instrument cluster pod.

Lower your windows on your doors, remove your interior panels, and insert old phone books. Duct tape them out of the way of the glass windows and electric window motors. This can be done by an amateur with as little as 1 hour of your time per door.

Lighter calibers of street-thug firearms such as .22, .38, and 410 shotguns won’t penetrate into your interior through your metal outer door panels plus through phone books.

This is a very quick and inexpensive way to help protect your family from muggers and small domestic riots where some bad actor in the crowd is likely to have a small pistol.

You can do the above without even alarming your family that an elevated level of threat exists. The windows will still work, after all. Your car will appear normal.

If you want to go the extra step, pick up on-line some Llumar or C3 bulletproof window film for your windows.

I’m not talking about being Rambo. You aren’t going to be machine-gunning down whole crowds of muggers or rioters before one of them can shoot your car from behind or from the side. TEOTWAWKI is *not* Hollywood! A little armor can thereby improve your daily sense of security without running up a big bill.

NIJ Level III Bulletproof backpacks (search Google!) sell for as little as $190. Even college students can have some easy protection.

Obviously the above is worthless against more powerful firearms, but a rioter is less likely to be carrying around heavy artillery without being picked off by whatever police/national guard forces are still around.

A little armor. A basic firearm. Bonus points if you have a dog with you.

You’ll do fine, even as crime increases along with the economic crisis.

[Squantos]

Suuuuuuweet !

Refuse to be a victim ! FIGHT BACK !

Nite Joe !

[Squantos]

Plan A..... !!

[Southack]

Nice! But a bit more than I can carry!

*I’m good for one, though.

[Squantos]

I keep it simple to......carry one sidearm IWB and a spare hicap mag in the ruler pocket of my carpenter jeans and a ankle rig that a parachute rigger sewed up for me from a simple uncle mikes nylon ankle holster . SW 317 Snub w/ old style and small 50 round spare box of CCI’s HP .22’s modified with Paco Kelly’s accurizer HP tool. Carried a little .22 as a backup ever since the LA riots.

[Gator113]

Ted Nugent , I sure as hell wish you were my neighbor, and I am damn glad that you’re a patriot with sound and consistent thought.

God bless you, Ted.

[randomhero97]

Thanks. I kinda fell inadequate now.

[randomhero97]

Grrr, fell = feel. See the inadequacy has me all jacked up.

[Squantos]

That’s just a pic off the net , not mine honest ......:o)

[familyop]

"Plan A..... !!"

[Familyop and his bear and cougar neighbors stop menacing each other long enough to stare at the photo of that big city pile of hardware. Suddenly, their shared frontier seems relatively more like a wilderness version of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood.]

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[mo]

I have yet to understand exactly why it is there have been no civil rights lawsuits over the consequences of depriving someone of their Second Amendment rights. Ordinarily the law in the US is eager to take advantage of such an opportunity.

[Daffynition]

Right out of JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO's playbook: Constitutional Chaos: What Happens when the Government Breaks Its Own Laws

The choice is clear: Gun control as forced by the Chuck Schumers 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 scourges of tyranny, slavery, 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—"keep" means it is mine, you can't have it. "Bear" means I've got them right here on me. "Shall not be infringed" echoes that beautiful "Don't Tread On Me" chorus.

I like the U.S. Constitution and our sacred Bill of Rights but, quite frankly, I don't really need them in order 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. These truths are all burned forever on my soul. I live them, no matter what." Amen Mr. Nugent. Amen.

[Erasmus]

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.

"
Rollin rollin rollin,
Rollin rollin rollin,
Keep them dogies rollin,
Rawhide!
"

[snowsislander]

BBTTT!

[BobL]

No wonder the gun store are empty.

Thanks.

[Dead Corpse]

Some of the Sheeple comments to Ted's article have got to come from paid Brady Bunchers.

No one can be that willfully stupid and still survive on a daily basis.

[Squantos]

All about the big city zombie threat. I to am in the boonies.

[familyop]

"All about the big city zombie threat. I to am in the boonies."

Agreed. Over the past few years, a few other commenters have mentioned fantasies of driving out of their cities to invade rural homes, if things get ugly in the cities.

But there are three long highways out of here--only one, if trouble comes from the cities (a "security" route with security plans). Quite a few of the developments have private roads, and thus, the edge of having a trespassing law to peacefully deal with anyone coming for nothing more than to case residences from those private roads (to look for security flaws, etc.).

Most of us are not wealthy, money-wise, although a few are (those with resorts or enormous expanses of land and cowhands). ...don't need to have large money accounts.

Google maps doesn't have high definition photos (or even recent ones) or addresses of places around here. ...not to mention the security services and gadgets of many of the residents. There are good watchdogs (biting liability dogs not welcome in these parts). Camera systems that auto-upload to remote servers are downright cheap these days--cheaper than the dogs.

The point is that we know our sparsely populated neighborhood and our neighbors. Violators are rare and don't get very far.