#  Guns: We’ll Call It Nuge's Law

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> ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Apr-2013/cw11030h.png)VOICES - Will the (possible) new background check deal announced in the Senate today at least keep [this nut](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/10/ted-nugent-nra-shoot-somebody-video_n_3052299.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003) from being allowed to have guns?

 Ted Nugent, the controversial rocker-turned-gun rights advocate, is quite the fan of violent rhetoric, as was evident again this week during an interview on the NRA News program "Cam &amp; Co."

Throughout the course of an interview[ loosely focused on the latest Congressional gun control efforts](http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/04/09/ted-nugent-doubles-down-on-claim-he-will-be-dea/193547), Nugent riffed on several of his common talking points, including his disapproval of President Barack Obama and his distrust of any form of gun control legislation.

Show host Cam Edwards helped fan the flames, suggesting that the version of [universal background checks legislation](http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/04/08/congress-returns-to-gun-debate-with-possible-breakthrough-on-background-checks/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Faffiliates%2Fkasa+%28Affiliate+-+Mountain+-+Santa+Fe+-+NM%29) being debated in the Senate is essentially “the Ban Ted Nugent Act of 2013" and could lead to felony convictions for using a borrowed gun.

"It's time to take a side," Nugent said, referring to moderates.

Nugent also reminded Edwards of comments he made in April of 2012, when he vowed to ["either be dead or in jail by this time next year"](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/16/ted-nugent-on-democrats-chop-their-heads-off-in-november/) if Obama was reelected.

"The left dominates the public discourse," Nugent told the host. "And here we are, with the Chicago gangster, ACORN rip-off, scam artist-in-chief because we, who know better, were silent... But when I kick the door down to the enemy's camp, would you help me shoot somebody? Just help me clear the room."

The gun proliferation supporters are always saying that they *agree* the dangerous mentally ill should be kept from having guns. Just saying ... I think we can find common ground.

 *(Digby is the pseudonym of progressive political blogger Heather Parton from Santa Monica, California who founded the blog Hullabaloo… where this commentary first appeared.) *-cw**

CityWatch

Vol 11 Issue 30

Pub: Apr 30, 2013

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