Posted on 01/06/2013 2:22:10 PM PST by Red Steel
Gun advocate Ted Nugent has taken it upon himself to write an open letter to U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on how he should handle the issue of gun control.
In essence, Nugent is calling for no further gun control but better the use of public service announcements encouraging the public to be aware of warning signs by those in their realm that could point to a possible dangerous situation.
The letter, published by the Washington Times, may not be every American's cup of tea nor may it be the right way to avoid further tragedies, but it is possibly the most well thought-out, coherent statement from the Nuge in quite some time. As you gather your team to study massacres and how to stop them, I offer to you my services and a lifetime of expertise on guns in all their implementations... In the spirit of goodwill and a deep desire to end gut-wrenching, incredibly sad and senseless rampages, I offer you the following recommendations:
I encourage you to persuade the president to lead this effort by providing a number of public service announcements. The announcements should include watching out for each other, encouraging parents to be more involved in their children's lives regarding entertainment choices, and knowing various indicators we should watch for in people who are unstable. Clearly, the focus on solving these mass murders must be on the mentally ill.
In almost every instance of mass killing, there were ample red flags and warning alarms that either were avoided or were not acted upon by mental health professionals, family members, friends and acquaintances. While I deeply respect an individual's privacy and civil liberties, the American people need basic awareness of what indicators to look for regarding potentially violent, psychotic people. Our collective safety begins with being collectively vigilant.
I don't encourage you to recommend a ban on any weapon, magazine capacity or type of ammunition. That won't accomplish anything other than prevent the 99.9 percent of responsible, law-abiding Americans from enjoying these modern weapons as we do now.
We should never recommend or develop public policy that restricts the rights of the good guys based upon what evil people do or might do. If that were the case, alcohol still would be banned. As you may know, drunk drivers kill an estimated 12,000 Americans each year and hurt tens of thousands more.
A tactic of infiltration from the left. If they can entice Nugent with their “logic”, then he can become a “spokesman” why we need to be disarmed and a parrot of tyranny. I hope Nugent tells them to stick it.
This isn’t any effort of promote understanding and their enlightened love, but a means to get Nugent to bend—thus, promote their platform thru trickery and hopes we’ll conclude, “Well if Nugent says so...”
Frankly, I think Nugent tells them to bug off.
“Ted Nugent Tries to Advise Joe Biden on Gun Control Issues”
You’d have a better chance of Biden finding manure around a carousel! Joe won’t listen and neither will his boss.
“Ted Nugent Tries to Advise Joe Biden on Gun Control Issues”
You’d have a better chance of Biden finding manure around a carousel! Joe won’t listen and neither will his boss.
He should have recommended gun safety classes as mandatory jr. high courses and shooting classes as optional high school courses.
Hey, Ted, I spotted one. His name is Joe Biden.
Advising Joe Biden....now there’s a real ‘mental’ excercise. Joe only uses two neural nodes, one for each lip and that’s it. If anyone doubts that we as a free people are really in deep voo-doo...watch a few clips (low capacity or high) of Joe the mindless wonder and all doubt shall be removed.
Every single time I see Nugent quoted here it makes me sick. He was a self defecating, draft dodging, coward. How he can be quote by any Conservative is utterly beyond me I don’t care WHAT he says.
Just pass a law making it illegal to break any existing law.
If a law will remedy a problem with crime and wrong-doers, that one law should end all of the nation’s crime problems.
Don’t even bother trying Ted.
You can’t fix retarded.
Hm...first I heard that Nugent had been arrested, convicted and assigned ‘Community Service’ and chose working/advising the mentally challenged.
Kudos....
“We should never recommend or develop public policy that restricts the rights of the good guys based upon what evil people do or might do.” Ted Nugent.
The most compelling argument in the whole mix, right now. The knee-jerk reaction of the socialists to never let a crisis or tragedy go to waste is absolutely the wrong solution.
We must be equally wary of the call for ‘improved’ mental health screening. Someone has to set that protocol, too. Do you really want it to be Zero and 0bamunists?
Just sayin’...
Just sayin’
Will have to be explicit law that also restricts Obama to have free reign using Soviet style tactics It's a danger no doubt.
Now someone needs to teach Joe how to read
How can one advise a fool?
There is hope! God bless him! Thanks for that.
Ted knows the real motive, I hope. Obama is NOT interested in reducing school slaughters. I he were, he would guard the kids, but no, that wouldn't solve his real problem. He just want's to get rid of some guns now and them get registration in so he or some other lefty in the future can grab the rest of them later. It's all about power and control. There will still be school slaughters, but then it will be too late. The constitution will be gone and replaced with a 'living document.'
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