Ted talks a load of tripe when he’s sticking to his guns

JUST in case the debate on America’s gun laws wasn’t nasty enough already, veteran rock star Ted Nugent has thrown in his tuppenceworth. His contribution comes just six weeks after 17 people died in the Stoneman Douglas High School massacre in Parkland, Florida.

Not surprisingly, some of the survivors think it might be a good idea to introduce stricter legislation regarding the ownership of firearms. But Nugent, a board member of the National Rifle Association, has dismissed them as ‘liars’ and ‘poor, mushy-brained children’.

He told a radio interviewer: ‘All you have to do now is not only feel sorry for the liars, but you have to go against them and pray to God that the lies can be crushed and the liars can be silenced so that real measures can be put in place to actually save children’s lives. These poor children, I’m afraid to say this and it hurts me to say this, but the evidence is irrefutable, they have no soul. The lies from the left, the lies from these poor, mushy-brained children who have been fed lies and parrot the lies, they are actually committing spiritual suicide because everything they recommend will cause more death and mayhem. Guaranteed.’

There is no excuse for such an insensitive and obnoxious tirade. But it might put it in some kind of perspective if these were the incoherent ramblings of a man who spends far too much time with his nose in a bag of Colombian marching powder.

Even if he was a reformed hellraiser whose brain had been fried by too many years of substance abuse, it might provide a tiny degree of mitigation. But the reality is that Ted Nugent is a lifelong teetotaller who doesn’t even use tobacco, never mind anything stronger. That’s the really scary thing about it.