Ted Nugent: Dumbass

Quote from Ted:

“Remember the Alamo! Shoot ‘em!” he screamed to applause. “To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want ‘em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot ‘em.” - link

Sounds like a great idea Ted, but guess what. If everyone has guns, and everyone is ready to kill at a moments notice, don’t you think the rapists, burglars, and child molesters will have guns too?

Who’s going to win in a gun battle: a housewife with a 22 pistol in her purse, or a professional criminal jumping out of the bushes gun in hand?

I understand your point of wanting to eliminate crime. Everyone wants that. But promoting an arms race between the common citizen and criminals isn’t going to work.

Killing the criminal is just a solving the symptom rather than the cause. Why do these people become criminals in the first place? Maybe they are uneducated because they went to a shitty inner city school. Maybe they are mentally unstable and need to be hospitalized or counseling.

If this society keeps producing criminals year after year, figure out why and solve that problem first. Then you won’t need guns.

BTW: I’m not anti-gun. Own one if you want, but I would rather work towards making them obsolete than to promote their spread. I’m 36 years old, and I’ve never been in a situation where I needed to kill another human being. The USA is one of the safest places to live on the planet. Let’s work towards making it safer. Everyone buying guns isn’t the right way to achieve this.

Food for thought: Look at the gangs in the major US cities. Everyone has guns, but has that stopped crime and violence? No, the opposite has happened. Armed inner city gang members have the lowest life expectancy of any other group. Gun violence is the leading cause of death for young men in some cities. According to Ted’s logic, the inner cities should be peaceful and crime free.