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Nugent Speaks Out for Gun Rights
Stephan Archer
Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2000
The following is the first of a two-part interview with gun rights activist
and guitar legend Ted Nugent.
Rock-and-roll legend Ted Nugent enjoys getting wild and crazy during
concerts, but offstage, the 51-year-old founder of the group Damn Yankees
becomes something of an advocate spending much of his time fighting for the
freedoms he enjoys as an American.
Above all else, Nugent values the freedom he possesses as an American to
worship God and protect his life and that of his loved ones. In his fight for
better communities, he has spoken on behalf of Mothers Against Drunk Driving,
Big Brothers/Big Sisters and the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.)
law enforcement program.
Nugent has been honored on the floor of the U.S. Senate and has been named
conservationist of the year in his home state of Michigan. He's received
numerous commendations from state police, sheriff departments, FBI, U.S. Army
and other police agencies nationwide. He also is a special deputy sheriff in
his hometown.
As an author and avid marksman, Nugent wrote "Bloodtrails: The Truth About
Bowhunting" in 1990. Most recently, he wrote "God, Guns, & Rock 'N' Roll"
earlier this year to express why he believes the right to bear arms is at the
core of his rights as an American citizen.
NewsMax.com caught up with Nugent and was able to find out more about the man
behind the book, guitar and gun. What follows is a look inside the seemingly
insoluble world of a rocker, author and advocate.
'God-Given Right to Keep and Bear Arms'
NewsMax.com: What encouraged you to write this book?
Ted Nugent: Al Regnery, the owner of Regnery publishing, read some of my
writing, saw me on a number of talk shows, and contacted me and asked me if I
would like to write a book about this peculiar gun-infested lifestyle of mine
within the wonderful world of typically drug-infested idiots of rock and
roll, and how I defied the punks, their drugs, alcohol and tobacco throughout
my life.
I've always cherished and celebrated my God-given right to keep and bear arms
and certainly my moral obligation to be capable of defending myself and my
family.
As I was talking to Mr. Regnery, I said, "Yeah, I can write a book, if I can
call it 'God, Guns, and Rock 'N' Roll.'" And he said, "Hey, that sounds like
a good title." So I pretty much jumped on it.
NM: What main point in the book do you want to get across to your readers?
TN: I think what is the most important thing about my book is that there are
no opinions in there. There are no hunches. There's no presumptuousness
whatsoever about my hands-on, eyewitness observations of these self-evident
truths and these common-sense realities that good working people across this
nation celebrate in their everyday lives, and finally it's in book form.
I'm just getting an amazing and very blessed response from people who are
saying, "Yes, that's the truth."
NM: One of the primary "self-evident truths" you talk about in your book is
the right of every American to bear arms. Are guns something people should be
afraid of?
TN: Not at all. In fact, the statistics are irrefutable. Americans own more
guns per capita than any society, or civilization, in the history of the
world, yet we are at an all-time, 38-year low gun crime rate.
Now just add that up. I'm just a guitar player, so you'll have to forgive me
because I never went to college. I was too busy learning things. The truth
is, never in the United States' history have more citizens had more concealed
weapons permits, and never before in record keeping have citizens had more
privately owned firepower than they do in the year 2000.
NM: On Page 29 of your book, you say, "The examples of fraud manipulation,
twisted statistics, and out and out lies about guns by the media are
unlimited." How does someone like yourself combat the anti-gun zealots in the
media?
TN: I do it in a whirlwind fashion. I was on Hannity and Colmes for the third
time recently. I was on Conan O'Brien and got some great licks in about guns.
I've been on Larry King and Ken Hamblin's show. I've been on Alan Colmes' own
liberal radio show. I've been on Rush Limbaugh and G. Gordon Liddy's show.
I'm on every major talk show across this country - every Christian talk show,
every rock station in this country - and I always get the truth conveyed in
an entertaining but in a dynamic fashion in that my sources are not only
irrefutable, but my presentation of common facts is easily acceptable on an
intellectual and a streetwise level.
NM: Nations around the world - including Australia, Great Britain, South
Africa and Canada - have, for all practical purposes, banned most or all guns
in their respective countries. How might this affect people's perspective of
our nation's Second Amendment, and can this happen in the U.S.?
TN: Well, first of all, people literally sacrificed their lives to try to get
to the land of the free and the home of the brave because of the quality and
the life experience that is based on this wonderful and hopefully perpetual
experiment in self government. I don't remember anybody taking a raft to
South Africa or to Australia or to Canada or to Great Britain or to Japan,
because those people are not free.
Isn't it fascinating that according to all the justice departments in those
countries - particularly the Scotland Yard report from Great Britain since
millions of privately owned guns were confiscated from law-abiding citizens -
that they have the highest rate of firearms violence in that nation's history.
What About U.N. Pressure Against Gun Rights?
NM: The U.N. has been getting more and more vocal about how it doesn't like
the idea of private gun ownership. How should the U.S. deal with this kind of
international pressure?
TN: We should have no relationship with the U.N. except to advise them how to
quit corrupting their people and corrupting their governments and taking
advantage of their citizens.
I think it's embarrassing and absolutely insulting to the brave men and women
of the armed forces of this nation who sacrificed their lives to maintain
sovereignty and freedom in America for us to compromise or to deal with
corrupt monsters like African nations and Asian nations who would just as
soon kill a citizen as allow them to go down on their bended knee to praise
God.
Look for the second part of this interview, coming Thursday.
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