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The Obamas of The World ‘Don’t Want to Save Lives’: The Ted Nugent Gun Interview You’ve Been Waiting For

Jan. 10, 2013 7:30am Becket Adams

Ted Nugent & Peter Schiff Talk Gun Control

Ted Nugent. (Photo: Getty Images / SL)

Not one to shy away from his support for the Second Amendment, Ted Nugent (i.e. the infamous “Motor City Madman”) during an interview on the Peter Schiff radio show Tuesday threw himself headfirst into the gun control debate.

His purpose? To argue that a loss of gun rights equals a loss of personal freedom.

“This conversation and the importance of focusing on the right to keep and bear arms really is the deciding factor in America versus the rest of the world,” Nugent said. “If the people in power — Michael Bloomberg, Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, Eric ‘Gun-Running-Attorney-General’ Holder — are you kidding me?”

“To force American citizens into unarmed helplessness,” he added, “that’s their agenda!”

Nugent turned his attention to violent crime statistics published by the F.B.I., Scotland Yard, and the United Nations.

“Where there are more guns in citizens’ hands, not only does crime go down, not only does violent crime go down, but personal assaultive-type crimes like rape, carjacking, and home invasion — they don’t just down, Peter: They go away,” he said.

“Why would you resist that obvious opportunity for an upgrade in reduction of crime? It’s because the Pelosis and the Eric Holders and the Barack Obamas in the world: They don’t want to save lives. They don’t care about reducing crime,” he added. “They are absolutely obsessed with their hatred for firearms!”

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lynnissmart
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 1:03pm
Ted Nugent – Just keep repeating what you just said over and over and over!

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Anadara
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:53pm
I think it’s refreshing to hear someone vent who feels as I do about this mess. Mr. Nugent… he speaks for me as I would peak for myself. …And clearly, a rational argument against an un-rational cabal of Hoplophobic bureaucrats is gains nothing.

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Tri-ox
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:48pm
Stories of brave, armed citizens – http://www.nraila.org/gun-laws/armed-citizen.aspx

Please join the fight – join the NRA today.

http://membership.nrahq.org/default.asp

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- Anadara
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:59pm
  Also, Join the NAGR – National Association for Gun Rights. They are working hard to preserve our 2nd Amendment too. They have the benefit of being just under the MSM radar thus avoiding media vilification.
  
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tothepoint
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:42pm
To Brother Winston Smith – Blaming Ted Nugent for Romney’s fail because he didn’t support Ron Paul? That’s so absurd. While there were things about Ron Paul that are sensible and likable, he is too radical for Americans to feel comfortable about making him President. There are many reasons Obama won including corruption but Ted Nugents’ support for Romney was not one of them.

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- Edward53
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:42pm
  Very well said.
  
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red_white_blue2
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:32pm
I think its time to get my permit to add to my shotgun~! Gee Barry, your helping to stimulate the economy after all!

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I SPY
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:30pm
God bless the Nuge, and God bless the USA.

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pduffy
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:27pm
Ted said, “They are absolutely obsessed with their hatred for firearms!” No, that’s not right. The LOVE firearms in the hands of tyrants like Fidel Castro. What they hate is conservative Christians, that happen to possess them. This is about hate for a group of people that disagree with their left-wing communist agenda, not a hate for firearms. For without firearms, they have no power to tyrannize the population like their buddy Fidel has done with his guns for decades. WHAT HYPOCRISY!

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Tri-ox
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:22pm
Flashback – (1995) Eric Holder: ‘Gun Owners Should ‘Cower’ in Shame Like Smokers’

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2013/01/10/eric-holder-gun-owners-should-cower-shame-smokers#ixzz2HauGv1yS

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Bamagal0007
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:22pm
BTW…Teds biggest problem was young girls when he was young himself…he is not and never has been a druggie. His opinion matters…as does every Americans’.

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- woodyee
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:42pm
  A young girl – she was 17. Which is over-the-hill when compared to the darling of the media – Woody Allen, and his step-daughter (STEP DAUGHTER!) Soon-Yi, who, according to Mia Farrow, was “abused” by Woody. Even the judge said his relation to Soon-Yi was disgusting.
  
  But hey, it’s New York, land of the Don’t do as I do, do as I say politician.
  
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Bamagal0007
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:19pm
Personally I refuse to try and downplay anyones defense of the 2nd Ammendment…Ted has every right to air his opinion and should deliver it however he chooses.
Ted is an American and his opinion is just as valid an anyones.
What the anti-gun left thinks is less important to me everyday…I am sick to death of these weenies and from now on, I don’t give a rats’ a** what they think. I plan to keep my guns…but they are more than welcome to come try and take them. God Bless America.

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woodyee
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:14pm
@RangerSkippy

You are just PLAIN WRONG to want to disparage Nugent at this stage in the game. This battle is ENGAGED. We do not have the luxury of picking and choosing who our spokes-holes are when the enemy is at the door. You get as many people as you can against the door, while you coordinate your counter-attack.

As was said in our branch of the military – you either lead, follow, or get the h3ll out of the way!

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valboski
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:03pm
personal self defense is an imperative especially when cities like Chicago, NYC Washington DC have used their attorneys to fight lawsuits for failure to provide police protection die to [the} fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen{70}

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Liberty1948
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:02pm
I love Ted Nugent and his courage to speak the Truth to the unhearing masses.
I only regret that I cannot link this article to my FB Page and share it with my “friends”.
Keep going Mr. Nugent!

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PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:02pm
The Nuge is so right. Sanity is speaking out. Here is some more sanity that NO ONE would EVER believe where it’s coming from….Patrick Kennedy !

http://www.gulagbound.com/36823/a-kennedy-shocks-the-pro-dope-liberal-media/

Just what Ted Nugent was talking about in the video. The country is drugged up and living in la-la land – not in reality – so, of course, THEY ARE ALL STUPID HOP HEADS (the useful idiots) and this Gvmt is taking advantage and loves it.

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Tri-ox
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:52am
NRA membership soaring – The NRA has added more than 100,000 new members in the last 18 days –

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/nra-100k-new-members-after-sandy-hook-86001.html#ixzz2Hamg2p8N

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flysail
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:44am
“”A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who would attempt to abuse them, which would include their own Government.”" — George Washington on the 2nd Amendment

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doncorleone
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:44am
I agree w/Glen on many things, not this time. The human body can go roughly 2 wks. w/out food, half that w/out water. People go en-masse to the “camps” many will die w/in weeks. Stalin, lenin, mao, starved almost 100 million in a short period of time. Also, if they know you’re unarmed, they’ll shoot you post-haste. Learned about much more about ayres than I ever knew thru Glen’s shows, he said what he’d do, if he was in a position of power, to those they couldn’t “re-educate”, 20 or more million dead, same way the chinese did it, didn’t he say.

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flysail
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:41am
Moscow fell, for example, not from a lack of weapons to defend it, but from the lying guile of the Reds. Ten thousand Reds took Moscow and were opposed only by some few hundreds of officer cadets and their instructors. Even then the battle was fierce and losses high. However, in the city alone, at that time, lived over 30,000 military officers (both active and retired), all with their own issued weapons and ammunition, plus tens of thousands of other citizens who were armed. The Soviets promised to leave them all alone if they did not intervene. They did not and for that were asked afterwards to come register themselves and their weapons: where they were promptly shot.

. Do not be fooled by a belief that progressives, leftists hate guns. Oh, no, they do not. What they hate is guns in the hands of those who are not marching in lock step of their ideology. They hate guns in the hands of those who think for themselves and do not obey without question. They hate guns in those whom they have slated for a barrel to the back of the ear.

So, do not fall for the false promises and do not extinguish the light that is left to allow humanity a measure of self respect.

Stanislav Mishin

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- doncorleone
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:04pm
  Didn’t the russian navy’s defeat to the japanese in 1905 help to foster an anti-czarist fervor, and all of the lies the bolsheviks told to the populace, what they could for them? History’s kind of repeating.
  
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Military Vet
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:32am
To attack the constitution that one has sworn to defend and uphold is blatant unabashed treason. This right shall not be infringed.

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LukeAppling
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:30am
Obama was elected by unions what are the police departments of the country doing about guns? I don’t like guns because more guns in the hands of free citizens means fewer police needed, means less money to bribe Obama and democrats each election cycle, means fewer police in America and fewer unionists! Pravda said today “Do not give up your guns, Americans!” they know what Stalin, Mao and Obama have and will do to an unarmed citizenry. They they had guns to defend against Putin.

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US Citizen
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:19am
While they have the right hand push gun control, keep an eye on the left hand. They are likely using this controversy to further destroy our republic while everyone is focused on stopping gun control. At some point we need to fight fire with fire…..

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Freedomlover_US
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:13am
Who the hell cares about Ted Nugent? Since when was he ever relevant? I couldn’t name you one song of his if my life depended on it – his claim to fame is making stupid comments.

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- Military Vet
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:33am
  I care about him. Enough said.
  
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bobad
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:12am
Of course 0bama isn’t interested in reducing deaths. If he was, he would do something about the extremely high murder rates in Chicago, Detroit, Chicago, Oakland, Newark, St Louis, etc. He will not even mention it. Would 1 of you 0bamabots tell me why he ignores this like you ignore an ugly woman in an elevator? He hates this so much I’m afraid he is going to pay off or kill the statistics takers.

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- Freedomlover_US
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:20am
  You think it’s easy to just eliminate murder in every high crime city in the country you moron? Maybe do something to get these illegal guns off the streets…
  
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gyro
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:11am
good interview

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cardhuu
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:09am
The big bad Ted Nugent the Vietnam draft dodger ! i for one won’t listen to a thing this jerk has to say. i had family die in nam while he pissed his pant and crapped hims self to look insane to not be take !

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- cardhuu
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:11am
  bad spelling sorry was PO when i wrote it. Draft dodging jerk!
  
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- Military Vet
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:34am
  He has made amends. Get over it.
  
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- pudssweetie
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 1:00pm
  Ted Nugent is not the only public figure who dodged the draft so get over it.
  
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