Article: Nugent: Gun-free zones are recipe for disaster

[TGO David]

Nugent: Gun-free zones are recipe for disaster POSTED: 11:25 a.m. EDT, April 20, 2007

By Ted Nugent

Special to CNN

Editor's note: Rock guitarist Ted Nugent has sold more than 30 million

albums. He's also a gun rights activist and serves on the board of directors

of the National Rifle Association. His program, "Ted Nugent Spirit of the

Wild," can be seen on the Outdoor Channel.

Read an opposing take on gun control from journalist Tom Plate: Let's lay down our right to bear arms

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 theevil 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.

[saintsfanbrian]

Study the

methodology of evil. It has a profile, a system, a preferred environment

where victims cannot fight back.

Very, VERY true statement there. Most of the former dictators of the world disarmed their citizens prior to total control of the country.

[Guest Fuel]

How about Fred Thompson and Ted Nugent on the next presidential ticket?

[Donnie]

How about Fred Thompson and Ted Nugent on the next presidential ticket?

OH hell yea. I'd vote for the both of them in a heartbeat.

[Wu-D]

Good read!

[TGO David]

How about Fred Thompson and Ted Nugent on the next presidential ticket?

I'm telling you... Fred Thompson & J.C. Watts. That ticket would destroy anything the Democrats could even hope to put together.

[Guest jackdog]

Excellent read, give hell ted

[towerclimber37]

wow!

I just read the bio on J.C. WATTS

awesome guy!

I LIKE him.

any man that has the intestinal fortitude to stand up and go it alone...as well as tell the national black caucus off..thats a man I'd vote for...vice president, or president.

we need leadership right now...a heck of alot more than we need a brainiac.

someone with exemplarary moral character, courage and the will to HELP the people..not stuff their own pockets with money from special deals that corporations and lobbyists set up..

I Like your ticket better Tung!

just my 2 cents.

[SkWaShDeM]

I saw a poll on the internet about Thompson's cancer, 80% of the the people surveyed said that they would still vote for him despite the cancer. If only he'd run.

[Guest GlocKingTN]

Very good reading Tungsten! At least we have "1" who can make some sense! Nugent made alot of good points in that!

[jgrauman]

http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/columns.asp?parentid=67957

"So let's just disregard all the hoopla about the racial identity of the student responsible for the slayings. These students were not killed by a Korean. They were killed by a 9mm handgun and a 22mm handgun."

edit: just like fords and hondas kill people from road rage... damn those cars let's get rid of them