Bloomberg Businessweek: Calling Ted Nugent Crazy Will Not
Win the Culture War
by AWR Hawkins 18 Jul 2014, 11:49
AM PDT
Writing in Bloomberg Businessweek, Paul M. Barrett described Ted Nugent as a
"crazy" gun nut who spews "racist venom." Gun Owners of
America's executive director Larry Pratt was described as a zealot who, like
our Presbyterian forefathers along the New England
coast in the early 1700s, holds tightly to the motto, "No King but King
Jesus."
Barret says these caricatures of
Nugent and Pratt are true, but pointing them out is to invite loss for gun control advocates. Indeed, pointing them out is to lose the overarching
cultural war in which various factions of Americans are now pitted.
Nugent is involved in a culture
war – one fought over the 1st Amendment, the 2nd Amendment, and the freedom
that has flowed from the rest of the Bill of Rights throughout American
history. Lots of free speech is better than very little free speech, and two
guns are better than one – actually, twenty guns are better than two. This is
the culture for which Nugent stumps.
Pratt's worldview differs
slighting from Nugent's in that it springs from the Bible, but his worldview
overlaps with Nugent's inasmuch as the Bible shows Pratt the importance of free
speech, of the right to keep and bear arms, of the sanctity of private
property, etc.
Nugent appeals to nature and reason
to make sound arguments for the right to keep and bear arms.
Pratt appeals to the Bible,
showing that, according to it, our first allegiance ought to be to Christ –
and, in a nation where that allegiance falls, we should be ready to defend our
lives, property, and government structure from the tyranny which is certain to
follow.
These are not shallow thoughts.
Nugent and Pratt are dug in and convinced of the historicity of their positions
and their arguments. An attempt to use bumper sticker philosophy to overthrow
either man is doomed to fail, and in failing, to lose the great cultural war
taking place.
Barrett says he's watched liberals
and anti-gunners "bear-bait" Nugent and Pratt in hopes of luring them
into a trap. Yet so far, in Barrett's experience, the bears have been winning.
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Bloomberg is the founder of Bloomberg
LP, the founder of the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, the founder of Everytown
for Gun Safety, a co-chair for Mayors
Against Illegal Guns, Marjorie B.
Tiven’s brother, was the New York (NY) mayor, and a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone.
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Family Foundation, an advisory board member for Everytown for Gun Safety, and was a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone.
George
Soros was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, a supporter for the Center
for American Progress, and the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Harlem Children's Zone, and the Center for American Progress.
Melody
C. Barnes was the EVP for the Center
for American Progress, the domestic policy council, director for the Barack Obama administration, a principal
for the Raben Group, and is Barack Obama’s golf partner.
Raben
Group is the lobby firm for Mayors
Against Illegal Guns.
Joyce Foundation
was a funder for Mayors Against Illegal
Guns, and the Bloomberg
Philanthropies.
Valerie B. Jarrett
was a director at the Joyce Foundation,
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and the senior adviser for the Barack Obama administration.
Bloomberg
Philanthropies is an umbrella organization for the Bloomberg Family Foundation.
Marjorie B. Tiven
is a director of Global Cities for Bloomberg
Philanthropies, a director at the United
Nations Development Corporation, Michael
R. Bloomberg’s sister, and was the New York City
commissioner for the United Nations.
Michael R.
Bloomberg is Marjorie B. Tiven’s
brother, the founder of Bloomberg LP,
the founder of the Bloomberg Family
Foundation, the founder of Everytown
for Gun Safety, a co-chair for Mayors
Against Illegal Guns, was the New York (NY) mayor, and a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone.
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