I Support The Right To Arm Bears!

One of the funniest article/columns I’ve read in quite a long while. If it weren’t for brain dead liberals, where would the sentient among us go for amusement? If they had their way, they’d outlaw rocks and sticks. The only solution, as I see it, is for the staff and readers of Rolling Stone to eat more meat. Seems all those rice cakes and soy protein have rotted their little brains. Better yet…maybe they should all move to France.

Late to the party, but here goes…

I would wager that any of the people here who think that I need one of my guns to “feel like a big man” has an automobile which is much larger and more powerful than any gun I own. Furthermore, automobiles — just like the one you own — are involved in many more murders, suicides, and accidental deaths than guns are.

Oh, sure, you might argue that we can’t get along without cars, but my great-grandfather did; he couldn’t get along without guns, though.

Just a couple of things to think about.

in the ever so true words of “larry the cable guy” if you can blame guns for killing people , then you can blame a pencil for misspelled words! i will die befor i let them take my guns away! and jughead i would rather be a conservative nut job than a liberal with no nuts and no job

Arno Luyendijk, you say that our second amendment is wrong, that guns kill people, and etc. knives kill people to, should we ban them, and what about baseball bats, and vehicles, these items also can kill, should we regulate them?

Good evening people..

for starters: I am a European (and please try to read my statements first before dumping it as the insane “ultra-liberal, dont-know-nothing-about-g uns-y ou-liberal-European etc”-abuse: what I really do not understand is that the hard reality is that the USA still has a far bigger crime rate than the whole of Europe and a frightening death penalty toll which still did not solve the same crime rate?

When is a citizen in your country ever allowed to speak out his sorrow about those same guns before being accused as a liberal nutcase? This simply has something to do with the same concern for LIFE, and so far I have still not seen this constitutional right of carrying guns solve crime and violence..will you please face it, the temptation of pulling the trigger of a gun simply IS there, it CAN kill in the hands of a human being!!!! Try to solve your country’s problems with btter education and understanding for your near and farther fellow man, his beliefs and stop the insane christian superiority thought that pervades and ruins your whole society. To give an illustration: the crusades in the 12th centuries also did not help to bring people and their beliefs together.

Yeah, guns kill people, just like money is the root of all evil. Maybe we should just turn all our hard earned money over to the Government too.

Remember though, Ted’s a rocker, not a politician. We, like Ted, should all speak out and make sure our politicians know what we expect of them.

I hate the rolling stone. I really do. The court ruling does not allow lunatics to own high powered rifles, it allows citizens to own high powered rifles and whatever guns they damn well please. i guess that every American that owns firearms is a “gun nut”.

In response to the right to privacy, search and seizure etc. the government only does those things to suspected terrorists, and unless youre a terrorist you have no reason to worry. Besides that, there is nothing about privacy in the constitution.

Well, well, first off, here’s a little tidbit for ya: virtually everytime even if it is a stabbing it is listed under and in the same category as a gsw, for use as a “statistic” for gun violence, let me step inside the mind of a killer, being an ex-sniper in the military, you have something I want so does your neighbor, I need drug money bad…..just gotta have it since doing them blew my chance’s in med-school and any other job, plus I will sell off anything even the virtue of my children just to turn a buck, but I can be helped, B***S***! I am also a repeat offender on the highest tier, released time and again just take a little vacation at the honest tax-payers expense now and again.
Back to you and your neighbor, see I do my homework and I know he has firearms he has the means to put an end to my spree, you do not you believe that what happens, happens for whatever reason, so naturally, I choose you, now I am to poor to get my own gun but I will make do, what’s this an unlocked tool shed and look at that it’s a shovel, oh boy! I break in and you come to see who just came in and busted up your 8-10 hour beauty sleep that you need so much for your everyday hippie/yuppie lifestyle of hummus and starbucks, and you surprise me grabbing your goods, BAM! meet your shovel! over and over again till you ain’t moving no more, but you happen to be just awake enough to see me go after that lovely wife of your’s wow she is hot and I am soooooo lonely guess what you get to watch every little demented thing I do to her, what’s this…another voice from a distant room…..why yes you lucky live and let live moron, you got a child now the fun really begins that child will NEVER be the same again I will guarentee it! but you could have stopped me…..you could have saved them…..but you chose to be defenseless, and I thank you, cause now I can move on to the next undefended place or perhaps a place that keeps its means of defence under a heavy vault lock and key, oh and thank you for the 10 inch kitchen knife I will surely make use of this down the road.
Fact is, this isn’t Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, this is reality, if this fictional person who doesn’t exist (yeah right!) comes to my house he will meet his maker and because I am a law-abiding citizen, I may spend the rest of my life in prison, I may get the chair, but it will be because my wife and children will be able to live their lives and not know the horrors that could have been, and I know that my wife, to protect our children, would do the same and she is a better shot than I am.
Sheep are meant to be slaughtered, you try and break into Ted’s home……that man is no sheep, but several of you people who like to whine just cause your white collar golf game get’s rained out oh pooo! You are the sheep and there ARE wolves out there……waiting. sleep tight!

I myself hate guns, can’t stand them, but to take guns away just does not make sense. All this would do is take them out of the hands of the people who follow the rules and leave them in the hands of the criminals. The person who gets a gun legally is not the one who scares me, it’s the ones who do it illegally. If you want to change a law, let’s make the punishment worse for crimes commented with guns or for people found with unregistered guns. Punish the bad guys, leave the good guys alone.

A note from history for all you misguided, liberal gun haters out there. If you had it your way 200 years ago we would still be under the rule of England, and most likely now under the rule of Nazi Germany.

Please let those of us who have the guts to defend your freedom (with guns) continue to do so without all of the whining.

Man was killing with rocks, sticks and blades long before there were firearms. I’m sure banning those worked well too.

Amen Ted! You tell them!

This guy is still alive!?! WTF???????? I guess it’s true. Only the good die young!

In the 18th century as in the 21st, and in every century in between, there exist in America only two classes of large predators that habitually prey on human beings.

The common English names for those two predatory groups are ‘criminals’ and ‘politicians’.

Guns are designed for the primary purpose of allowing law abiding and innocent citizens a convenient and portable means of protecting themselves from those predators.

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Some of you say how could Ted support one part of the constitution, but (to YOUR way of thinking) not uphold other parts of the Constitution?
That made me think:
Why would people with the political leaning which says we cannot “round-up” 12 million illegals think on a different issue that we could round up 100’s of millions of guns from their rightful owners?

The reason that Supreme Court did not take away the right to bear arms is because so many of us actually avail ourselves of that right. Let that be a lesson to all of us.

I’m stunned to read that some people posting here actually think the second amendment is about duck hunting and/or a militia and not about “The People”.
Some of the signers of the Constitution took the time to explain why they wrote what they did in “The Federalist Papers”. If you still think the 2nd isn’t about the rights of the people after reading up on it in The Federalist Papers then maybe….just maybe it’s time to set the crack pipe down.
Lumping legal gun owners in with the actions of criminals with guns is no different than saying all people of color like watermelon. I can’t believe our public school system has failed so bad that people out there still have no comprehension of the 2nd.
Gun ownership has never been about Republican VS Democrat. It’s about the rights of the people as Americans.

Monadnock | 6/29/2008, 8:15 am EST

“Guns don’t kill - people kill. I thought the intellectuals who read Rolling Stone would know that. Evidently, readership IQ has significantly declined.”

Guns are a tool to kill. Yes people pull the trigger but it is THE BULLET THAT KILLS a man. So you see GUNS DO KILL!!! Get it straight ignoramus.

I am glad to see it affirmed that any law-abiding competent citizen has the right to keep and bear arms. My only worry at this time are how deluded ultra liberals will try to water down this right with what they think are reasonable restrictions.

When the founding fathers wrote the U.S Constitution they were not just writing about tyranny in the 1700’s, it was also to safeguard Americans from Tyranny in the 21st Century, both HERE and abroad.

The main reason a goverment would want to disarm law abiding citizen is to create a monopoly of violence and if need be terror. When they obtain such a monopoly they will in turn be cemented in power until violently removed (Either via Military or Civilian). Those who wish to point out India’s peaceful revolution must note that it is actually the exception rather than the rule. In all of recorded history it is the only Nation in the world who won its independence without violence.

Example: Russia under Stalin in 1919 enacted very strict Gun Control. As a result historian estimate that approx. 62 Million people were executed for being political dissidents (IE didn’t follow the party line).
Now if your answer is that it will never happen here because we have laws and a constitution to protect us. You will be sadly mistaken.

When a Goverment has a monopoly of violence it can do whatever it well wants. You have no means to affect it or change it unless IT wants to. Your voice is only heard when IT wants it to.

With the 2nd Ammendment the Founders of our Nation made sure we had the ultimate bullhorn. You WILL listen to us. You WILL do what we want you to because if you do not what we head with PEACEFUL means, then we will make you listen via force.

The Founders of our Nation were truly men beyond their time. They did not think short term, which to our modern government is the next election cycle. They did things that to some were unpalatable, but did so because it was for the greater good.

Our Founding Fathers did what they did because they saw Public Service as a noble calling and its reward was helping your fellow citizen. Not like today where it is seen to power, privlage and getting fat at the public trough while the rest of us starve.

For those of you have a hard time following my flow of thought I will outline it breifly for you below.

The 2nd Ammendment is the teeth that Guarantee’s EVERY OTHER RIGHT listed in the Bill of Rights. Freedom of the Press and Speech will not be what it is unless there is something in place to remind a Government that to do so can result in removal of said leadership.

The U.S Constitution and Bill of Rights is not what protects us from a Tyrannical Government. Its the fact we are allowed to be armed and remove via foce IF NECESSARY a tyrant from governing us.

This is not a call for violence against our government, for we still have in place a peaceful means of removing tyranny from our Government.

All this decision provides is a basis for lawful citizens to own guns for protection.

It will have absolutely no impact on the criminals and dirtbags running around with illegal guns - they are the reason that Chicago’s murder rate is so high while they have a ban.

Don’t people get it? Criminals don’t give a damn about the laws.

Let honest, law-abiding citizens protect themselves.

Guns don’t kill - people kill. I thought the intellectuals who read Rolling Stone would know that. Evidently, readership IQ has significantly declined.

“We all have a need to defend our families, but you can do that without a gun.” My response, don’t take a knife or a ballbat to a GUN FIGHT.

Can our system of government, our system of justice,survive if one can be denied a freedom because he might abuse it.

When the immoral notion that “man is his brother’s keeper” is forced on us by a tyrannical government, a country and its people lose their most precious possession — liberty. When we exchange our liberty for a mess of handouts from our government, when we expect government and our “brothers” to protect us from every ill-wind life throws at us, we end up degenerating as human beings.
We also end up hating our “brothers” who presume the right to steal the bread from our mouths. We end up punishing law-abiding men for so-called “crimes” they did not commit, did not intend to commit, and for which there is no evidence of a crime. We end up punishing law-abiding men for the actions of others. We end up destroying a once free country. I will continue to protect my family,friends and all the idiots that think the second amendment has no importants. I wish more of you lived in DC where only the criminals and the law makers have guns and the government has made the honest people defenseless for 33 years

And this is the guy who asks for money from fans to give a autograph…look it up on youtube.

USA has guns, and a off the charts gun-murder rate as compared to other developed nations.

Facts that get in the way of flippant neo-cons.
Ted thinks the military in Iraq are fighting for our “freedoms”. He’s a sheep.

What I find amazing about you “pathetic new age flower power pansies”, is how willing you are to vote away your rights of freedom. Once rights are gone, there is no getting them back, it just doesn’t happen. There is no buying a new one when it’s lost! The people of this country that metaphorically and verbally spit into the faces of Americans who have loved, died for and served this country. They are no better than the terrorists that flew the planes. But yet this government/country you despise, its the first place you cry to when something goes terribly wrong. That makes no sense. Are you, as a citizen willing to do what it takes to really change this country? First step is quit bitchin’ and be responsible for yourself and your family. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS, RETAIN YOUR RIGHTS. Knowledge is a weapon and a gun in the hands of an idiot is the process of natural selection.
UNCLE TED IN 2012!

Gun control - being able to hit your target.

When I get home from Iraq, I going to get a conceal and carry permit just to piss off the left wingers.

It’s hard to believe there are so many idiots on here that hate the US Constitution. The 2nd Amendment is the glue that holds the Constitution together. Without the RIGHT to defend ourselves, how will we as a nation ever survive. Those of you who choose not to own firearms, that’s fine with me. But why should I give up my RIGHT to own firearms because you don’t want me to? My guns are not bothering you and never have. If you or your family are ever the victim of a violent crime, call on one of you anti-gun, gun hating buddies to help you. By the way, have you ever thought of outlawing criminals? Just pass another law, that will surly take care of the problem.

Ted,

I admire your stance but you need to know what some of those SATANIC Illuminati lawyers have done to our beloved Union before you make a idiot out of yourself.

The elite thumb their noses at your ignorance of the LEGAL TRUTH !

We haven’t been living under the original organic “united States” Constitution since 1867 with the passage of the 14th Amendment, which, in a LEGAL sense, made everyone a slave to the CORPORATION of the
-UNITED STATES OF AMERICA-.

Since 1933 all “US CITIZENS” have been corporate entities, not real live sentient Common Law human beings. (Thanks to FDR and his Federal Reserve Banker Puppet Masters)

Everyone’s original birth certificates has been registered with the US Commerce Dept. as collateral against the National Debt.

Ever wondered why you can only get a certified COPY of your birth certificate and not the original?

I’ll bet you a feral hog and a bear skin rug plus a million bucks that even big bad TED NUGENT can’t get his ORIGINAL birth certificate.

Love ya man, but do a google search concerning this and you may be on your way to the real eye opening
Common Law LEGAL TRUTH !!!

Yes it’s true, those pesky little critters have taken your God given Christian name, Ted Nugent and made it into all Capital letters.
TED NUGENT, the CORPORATION who has NO unalienable God given rights.
None , nada, zip !!!!

You only have privileges that the fascist govt deems OK for you to have. When they no longer want you to have them , your few remaining privileges will vanish over night. (Probably before the end of 2012)

Keep On Rockin,
Sincerely,
Your Texas Neighbor and
fellow bow hunter.
Cowboy J

P.S. we have a mutual (fellow bow hunter,bass player) friend originally from San Angelo Texas.

Ted has been and apparently always will be an idiot.

ted’s just another crazy redneck/uberconservative who fails to see the facts that guns kill more people by a)suicide b)homicide c)accident than anything else. Give guns to everybody, ted. Let’s kill more innocent bystanders-women and children. That would be evolution now wouldn’t it? If everyone had guns, we’d be safer? Yeah right. ANd like the others said there is no militia anymore setting up shop in our homes. The 2nd amendment was concerning this protection not a free for all where everyone can have guns. That’s riduculous. Who determines who will use a gun for “hunting” and who will use a gun to kill people. No one knows so the best bet is to outlaw guns and read the constitution. We all have a need to defend our families but you can do that without a gun. Saying you need one to protect your family is just a copout.

RE:Supertramp | 6/27/2008, 3:35 pm EST

Right on guys. I agree. Too many people die by gun violence and why shouldn’t they register their guns. People die of a)homicide b)suicide and C) accidental deaths each year on account of guns. We need to put a ban on guns. Time and time again people have only read “right to bear arms” and didn’t read the rest or read it in its context. There is no militia in our homes to protect ourselves against. Crazy rednecks/conservatives (ie: Ted Nugent)just want to shoot their guns to feel big and too hunt. They can’t even do that right, remember cheney’s shooting “accident” where he almost killed his friend and that’s the vp of the country. There’s no need for guns. If people need to fight, grow a set and fight with you fists. ONly cowards cling to their guns. And these same cowards are killing innocent men, women, and children every day.

i’ve read several comments where ppl are against the 2nd amendment and guns in general. what you don’t understand is that the ppl that have the right to own guns are ppl who live by the law. criminals will get a gun reguardless of what the laws are. look at the crime rates in DC. they are 7th in the country. did the gun restricitons work? i think not. they only take away the ability of law abiding citizens to protect themselves.

Hey Teddy, did you account for the fact that the second amendment was created when the United States had a militia, and needed to be ready to fight at any given time on our own soil? Guess not. Keep your shotguns for hunting, but if you need hand guns and machine guns to hunt, you are a pathetic lying peice of shit.

Ted doesn’t want to have to register his guns? Well I don’t wanna register my car, See how far I or you get with that.

Ted is a fucking idiot who only feels like man when he has gun in his hand. This peice of shit is guilty of stautory rape for christ sake and we are gonna listen to this fucknut about the LAW OF THE LAND???

“Hey Baby” is an all-time great song. So, he did that.

“….following a Supreme Court decision yesterday allowing lunatics the right to own high-powered rifles for personal use, Nugent would respond. Despite the gun-nut-favoring result……

Look, whether you agree with the decision or not this is a pretty clumsy and hyperbolic way to sum up the Court’s ruling yesterday. Your message is lost when you resort to this knee-jerk bullshit. At the end of the day, you don’t appear to be any more reasoned than Ted - who at least bothered to read the text of the Constitution for his piece. It is painfully clear whoever wrote this blog entry did not read the Court’s opinion, does not understand the scope of the ruling and has no idea about the specifics of the law that was being challenged.

Shame on you, because its just plain lazy. You need to do a little more homework than scanning liberal blogs before you start typing.

Right on! I believe we all have the right to bear arms. Now let me go shoot some bears and put their arms on my mantel piece. No one’s gonna tell me what to do!

This is what I don’t get about the gun people. They talk about constitutionality when it comes to guns and ownership issues, but don’t care about countless other things in government like the FISA Bill.

What I’m saying is that I would like some consistancy when it comes to individual. You know, consistancy, like how Ted consistantly released shitty music over the years.

Try to take my right to bear arms away and you will quickly find that you have become the tyrant looking down the wrong end of my gun barrel.

ted nugent is right on…..his music sucks but his understanding of the Constitution is admirable..i am sick of the government infringing on not only our rights under the Constitution but on the way individuals decide to live their lives…THE BEST GOVERNMENT IS THE GOVERNMENT THAT GOVERNS THE LEAST!!!

“following a Supreme Court decision yesterday allowing lunatics the right to own high-powered rifles for personal use”

I get that Ted Nugent is a bit of a raving loony, but does RS even have a legal department? The above statement is patently false. The decision focused exclusively on the DC gun ban and specifically steered clear of any commentary over what restrictions individual states could put on gun ownership, i.e. licensing, no guns for convicted felons, and, I believe this was mentioned either in the case or orally, restrictions on gun ownership for insane people.

It is truly amazing that an article would attack someone for using hyperbole and making completely false and out of left field statements (like comparisons to Pol Pot) and essentially do the same thing by greatly misleading its readers with false information about the basic premise of the SCOTUS decision.

…All this from the man who brought us “Wang Dang Sweet Poontang.”
Bitch, please….

Outrageous “Ted Speak” aside (and of course the unnecessary name calling) Ted is correct on his US Constitution. 2nd Amendment is there so that even when it looks like this right is at odds with a current social problem (gun violence and gun accidents), that does NOT allow the government to change the rules.

The Supreme Court made two OUTSTANDING rulings this week (the rape case and the gun case)that said basically the same thing : The LAW is not always convenient, but it is here to protect THE PEOPLE from their government…God knows we need this protection in the era of The Patriot Act (see? I’m not a Bush guy)

I don’t want my government CHANGING the Constitutional laws of this country. These are the laws that we fight for every day. We ALL deserve them.

Will stupid people hurt themselves and others with guns? yes, (but it is their right to have one, it’s their responsibility to not be a jackass with it.)

Will society be upset that a child rapist gets life in prison? yes, however chasing socially frowned upon behavior with stricter penalty is not the answer: see the Crack cocaine laws

Rolling Stone, see past the cornball tone of Ted’s writing (he is a musician!)and give credit to his CORRECT message.

Lisa: The second amendment is just a remnant from revolutionary periods, it has no real meaning today

Homer: You couldn’t be more wrong Lisa. If I didn’t have this gun the King of England could just come in here and start pushing you around. Do you want that, well do ya?

Need I say more? FYI Nudge, George W. did more to infringe on your personal freedoms than did any past President in history. Patriot Act buddy, they can spy on you now. Why didn’t you speak up then?

Well said, Brad–thanks!

Wait, Ted Nugent is gun-crazy? C’mon! Next you’re gonna tell me metal wildman Alice Cooper plays golf! He does!!!!! Well, at least weedmaster Snoop Dogg isn’t a totally suburban pop warner football dad….HE IS!!!!! OMG!!!!! I guess I forgot to watch VH1 for ten years!

Also, there was no “the jump” in that piece. It was the next paragraph. What were we supposed to jump? That tiny little white space?

way to go, ted

I love uncle ted. Cant wait for his book out later this year.

who the hell cares what a second rate, washed up musician thinks about the constitution. Does anyone take this hillbilly seriously?

wow.

aging rock star =paranoid delusional gringo, hey ted go hunt a bear and by the way leave your rifle at home the world doesnt need mediocre musicians expressions on constitutional rights.

All Together Now:

WHO CARES?!?!?!?!

I’ve always been against guns and believe there should be more controls in place, but after reading the above I think I’m gonna get myself a gun to protect myself against Ted Nugent and right-wing religious fuckin’ nuts like him.

I understand the Nuge’s position on this actually. While I think he steps over the line on many occasions, I feel that he’s justified in being angry over the deterioration of one of the cornerstones of the Bill of Rights.

However, Ted, if you’re getting this pissed off about the right to bear arms, lets see you get equally rabid about our government conducting illegal searches and seizures, disregarding our right to privacy and detaining people without a fair trial.

These aren’t right or left issues at the end of the day, these are Constitutional rights that affect every American.