I dunno..

[docwebster]

Maybe it's the exposure to all that gunpowder?

Jeff Cooper On Inner-City Violence:
"…the consensus is that no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society. These people fight small wars amongst themselves. It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition."
Cooper's Corner, Guns and Ammo

Ted Nugent on South Africans:
"Apartheid isn't that cut and dry. All men are not created equal. The preponderance of South Africa is a different breed of man. I mean that with no disrespect. I say that with great respect. I love them because I'm one of them. They are still people of the earth, but they are different. They still
put bones in their noses, they still walk around naked, they wipe their butts with their hands … These are different people. (Me: I dunno, Ted, sounds like a pretty typical Aerosmith tour to me) You give 'em toothpaste, they fucking eat it ... I hope they don't become civilized. They're way ahead of the game."
--Detroit Free Press Magazine

Ted Nugent on homosexuality:
A "despicable act" performed by "guys that have sex with each other's anal cavities."
--Hannity and Colmes

Marion Hammer on police-maintained databases of gun buyers:
"We don't want government to know who has the guns. If the government knows who has guns and where to find them, they can ban them and then confiscate them."
--Miami Herald

"And Commander XOgswsk from the planet Feelldbub will sneak into our homes and eat our brains and steal all the pretty neon twinkies that go boing boing boing all night long and oh god where's my medication?" Hammer did NOT go on to say.

Comments

[nsingman.livejournal.com]

Cooper may simply be reaching for a very specific corollary of Sturgeon's Law (90% of everything is crud), but I disagree with him anyway. When criminals die, I don't mourn. But too many innocents die in inner-city gunfights to be as sanguine as Cooper seems to be. Nuge is great when he hunts and plays, and very funny when he ridicules animal rights activists, but he's just silly on apartheid and homosexuality. Laugh at Hammer if you wish, but she is absolutely right; governments have done precisely that (banning and confiscation) in the past. Disarming the populace is a sine qua non of tyranny.