Posted on 07/19/2008 1:54:07 PM PDT by yankeedame
By Jody Thompson,
17/07/2008
(What's this?)American rock star Ted Nugent has followed in Lily Allen's footsteps to be the latest celebrity to comment on the UK's knife crime problem.
However, unlike Lily, he's set to spark controversy with his outrageous views.
An advocate of hunting and gun-ownership rights, Nugent currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Rifle Association and thinks the problem would stop if Britons were allowed to arm themselves with guns.
Talking mid-set during his gig at London's Indigo venue in the 02 Arena on Monday night, he said: "I understand that London has a knife problem. That's because you took everybody's guns away."
He continued: "If you had a f***ing gun you could shoot the motherf*****s with the knife. Do you need me to explain that to you dumb Limey motherf******? In Detroit, we don't have a knife problem. The knife motherf*****s got a Ted problem."
"'Oooh, he's got a knife, I'll pretend I'm from England'. [Imitates firing a gun]. Take that motherf****r. [Then pretends to call 911]: 'You might wanna bring a dustpan and broom because there's a big puddle of shit on the sidewalk'. That's what you call a deterrent. That motherf****r ain't gonna knife no-one ever again."
It's unlikely anti-knife campaigners are going to take Nugent's ideas seriously however.
As exclusively revealed in The Mirror today, one in five youngsters now claim they or their pals have been threatened with knives in the past year with an explosion of gangs being blamed.
Police figures to be released today are expected to show 25,000 stabbings were committed in England and Wales in the last 12 months.
Ted is Ted. My former neighbor. ( Yes, he used to live a few houses down from me.)
You just got to LOVE Nugent!!
It’s a shame that we don’t more just like him!
That Ted— he’s a pip!
Then next it will be anti-pointed sticks.
They’d probably just arrest Ted if he went there. Its illegal to point how how badly they are failing.
“Duh”.
Britain’s crime rate has spiraled out of control since they banned firearms. Now they’re going bonkers, over KNIVES?...
America’s crime rate, has gone down during the same time.
Are you familiar with Ted Nugent?
He was “there”: “Talking mid-set during his gig at London’s Indigo venue in the 02 Arena on Monday night”.
“In a world gone soft, somebody’s got to be hard.”
BBC correspondent discovers gun-owning America feels safe
The American Thinker
25 April 2008
Justin Webb, BBC’s North America editor, reports to UK listeners and readers on the “paradox” that America is less violent (and feels much safer) than Britain, where private hand gun ownership is banned.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006780/posts#21
Ted’s right, of course, but there’s something I don’t understand about the knife crime epidemic in Britland:
Once the populace was disarmed, the criminals still had guns, didn’t they? Lots of cheap handguns flooding in from former Soviet bloc and China.
But now, thugs would rather stab their victims than shoot them, even if illegal guns are available? It sounds like something truly insidious, a mass psychosis, is taking over the Brits. Violence that used to be the specialty of soccer yobbos (and they used fists, mostly) seems to be spreading like mass mental illness. Are the Brits so purposeless and disillusioned that turning on their fellow humankind is the only outlet remaining?
Thoughts?
They didn’t arrest him for a hate crime? lol
Best use of the word f******!!!!
True but it's probably safer than London.
This is the Mirror, a left wing tabloid. ‘Nuff said.
Wow! I’d love to have Ted Nugent as my neighbor. Any stories?
And yes, Vision, I do know Ted Nugent. And I concede the more I think on it, the lamer my response sounds. Ted is Ted and the Brits need to smell the coffee-or the blood wafting from their streets.
TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND STABBINGS IN ENGLAND AND WALES IN THE PAST YEAR??? THAT IS THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS CRIME STATISTIC I HAVE EVER HEARD!! hOW does that compare with other countries? I would bet that’s twenty times the US’s statistic, even with our huge population difference/
Unarmed, we lose our citizen respectability.
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