Exclusive: US rocker Ted Nugent's outrageous rant on UK knife crime

Mirror.co.uk ^ | 17/07/2008 | Jody Thompson

[Beagle8U]

Ted is Ted. My former neighbor. ( Yes, he used to live a few houses down from me.)

[Howie66]

You just got to LOVE Nugent!!

It’s a shame that we don’t more just like him!

[Clara Lou]

That Ted— he’s a pip!

[dfwgator]

Let me guess... The anti-knifers are the same folks who were anti-gun.

Then next it will be anti-pointed sticks.

[driftdiver]

They’d probably just arrest Ted if he went there. Its illegal to point how how badly they are failing.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

“Duh”.

Britain’s crime rate has spiraled out of control since they banned firearms. Now they’re going bonkers, over KNIVES?...

America’s crime rate, has gone down during the same time.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

In Detroit, we don't have a knife problem.

I don't know if Detroit's a good place to brag about.

[Vision]

Tackless?

Are you familiar with Ted Nugent?

[Caramelgal]

He was “there”: “Talking mid-set during his gig at London’s Indigo venue in the 02 Arena on Monday night”.

[Vision]

“In a world gone soft, somebody’s got to be hard.”

[donna]

BBC correspondent discovers gun-owning America feels safe
The American Thinker
25 April 2008

Justin Webb, BBC’s North America editor, reports to UK listeners and readers on the “paradox” that America is less violent (and feels much safer) than Britain, where private hand gun ownership is banned.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006780/posts#21

[elcid1970]

Ted’s right, of course, but there’s something I don’t understand about the knife crime epidemic in Britland:

Once the populace was disarmed, the criminals still had guns, didn’t they? Lots of cheap handguns flooding in from former Soviet bloc and China.

But now, thugs would rather stab their victims than shoot them, even if illegal guns are available? It sounds like something truly insidious, a mass psychosis, is taking over the Brits. Violence that used to be the specialty of soccer yobbos (and they used fists, mostly) seems to be spreading like mass mental illness. Are the Brits so purposeless and disillusioned that turning on their fellow humankind is the only outlet remaining?

Thoughts?

[conservativeharleyguy]

"...anti-knife campaigners..."

Soon to be followed by "anti-sharp stick campaigners", then "anti-rock campaigners", "anti-dirt-clod campaigners", and "anti-finger-in-your-eye campaigners".

What's next? "Anti-sticking-your-tongue-out-at-me campaigners"?

Let the Muzzies have the damned place. The British deserve to lose it.

[TigersEye]

They didn’t arrest him for a hate crime? lol

[MadelineZapeezda]

Best use of the word f******!!!!

[TigersEye]

I don't know if Detroit's a good place to brag about.

True but it's probably safer than London.

[expatpat]

This is the Mirror, a left wing tabloid. ‘Nuff said.

[tanuki]

Wow! I’d love to have Ted Nugent as my neighbor. Any stories?

And yes, Vision, I do know Ted Nugent. And I concede the more I think on it, the lamer my response sounds. Ted is Ted and the Brits need to smell the coffee-or the blood wafting from their streets.

[supremedoctrine]

TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND STABBINGS IN ENGLAND AND WALES IN THE PAST YEAR??? THAT IS THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS CRIME STATISTIC I HAVE EVER HEARD!! hOW does that compare with other countries? I would bet that’s twenty times the US’s statistic, even with our huge population difference/

[television is just wrong]

a civil respectable society has its citizenry armed.

Unarmed, we lose our citizen respectability.