Ted Nugent tells NRA crowd to turn up "the heat" on guns

PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - The National Rifle Association wrapped up its annual meeting on Sunday with an appearance by rocker Ted Nugent, who urged the pro-gun rights crowd to "talk about guns all the time."

"You need to fix everybody in your lives to be absolutely pro-gun," Nugent said. "You need to talk guns all the time. You need to talk hunting all the time.

"The gun community should be all about public relations," he said. "We haven't turned up the heat enough yet."

Some 70,000 people -- men, women, families with children -- attended the powerful gun lobby's three-day event in Pittsburgh, said NRA spokeswoman Rachel Parsons.

Excellent. Yes. Gun control people are on the defensive for the first time in my lifetime -- which is the way it ought to be -- "gun control" is insane, unless you're a power hungry elected official or your name is Barak Obama.

Gun rights groups everywhere are talking about seriously repealing gun control laws.

Now is the time. The tide is rising. A good place to start would be some SERIOUS de-funding of the hated BATF. Time to contact your Reps in Washington.

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Gun control people are on the defensive for the first time in my lifetime -- which is the way it ought to be -- "gun control" is insane, unless you're a power hungry elected official or your name is Barak Obama.

Gun rights groups everywhere are talking about seriously repealing gun control laws.

Here's my proposal for a repeal of all federal gun control:

Federal Firearms Freedom Act

1) United States Code Title 18, Part I, Chapter 44 is hereby repealed in its entirety.
2) United States Code Title 26, Subtitle E, Chapter 53 is hereby repealed in its entirety.

This restores the RKBA. It eliminates all federal gun control and firearms taxes. It leaves only the Second Amendment as the sole federal law relating to firearms.

My approach to firearms advocacy, especially with respect to liberals, is to phrase the argument in terms of first principles. The right to your own life is paramount, and that's the place to begin the argument. All else follows from that premise. It's hard to argue against that premise without exposing oneself as a monster. And if you can gt your opponent to accept that premise, it leads to many other places besides firearms ownership.

Roger that, Uncle Ted!

This is how I like to rock the RKBA...no video, but there are lyrics posted to read (or sing/scream at the top of your lungs) along with the music. Crank it up...way up, especially if you have Leftist neighbors!

Just One Gun by 10 Pound Test

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

I had discussions, back when we were pushing for a shall-issue law in my state, with gun owners who were more concerned with range protection, et al. I told them that they had valid concerns, but that IMO, passing shall-issue was, if not most important, clearly the most immediate.

The greatest weapon the antis have had has been their ability to portray gun ownership as something rare and perverse. Even in the most anti-gun states, more than 1/4 of households own guns - but almost everybody thinks that gun ownership is unusual.

What shall-issue has done has been to make it clear that gun ownership is common. Every one of those “no guns” signs is an advertisement that there are millions of law-abiding citizens in the community for whom owning and using guns is a perfectly ordinary thing.

About eight years back I was working a gun-rights booth at a gun show at the state fair grounds. I remember seeing people in the parking lot, pulling cased shotguns from their cars, and looking around in an uneasy manner, to make sure they weren’t being seen. 40-year-old adults acting like twelve-year-olds afraid of being caught with their fathers’ Playboys, for the simple act of carrying a cased long gun into a gun show.

It pissed me off - that the anti-gunners had so imposed their mindset that even at gun shows, you could see law-aiding gun owners afraid of being seen doing something innocent, legal, and perfectly ordinary.

The shall-issue movement, and building on it the open carry movement, is disarming the gun control crowd, with respect to their “rare and unusual” weapon. We still have farther to go.

Nugent is right, that we need to be more public. It’s the most important thing we need to do.

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