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[Zeitgeist]

Ted Nugent recommends more guns for students
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Aug. 15, 2000 | DENVER (AP) -- In his new book, rocker Ted Nugent
suggests that students could have stopped last year's Columbine
massacre by rushing one of the two gunmen.
Nugent, an avid bowhunter and a director of the National Rifle
Association, also wrote that the April 20, 1999, shooting proved
people should be allowed to carry concealed weapons. "Even Eric
Harris and Dylan Klebold were nearly robotic in their methodical
slaughter. After emptying a double-barreled shotgun, one knelt with
his back to grown adults and athletes, sniveling, while he conversed
with his next victim for minutes on end," Nugent wrote in "Gods, Guns
and Rock N' Roll".
He autographed copies of his book Monday at a downtown book store as
two police officers stood guard.
Tattered Cover Book Store owner Joyce Meskis said the store received
several complaints about the event.
"But to inject our bias or the bias of another group into the
decision over whether to allow an author to come is an affront to the
First Amendment," she said.
Tom Mauser, whose son Daniel was one of the 12 students killed at
Columbine, called Nugent's statements "despicable."
"I think he's living in this fantasy world where kids are crybabies
if they don't fight back against somebody holding a gun," Mauser
said.
Mauser, who said his son was shot a second time after shoving a chair
at one of the gunmen, said he thought the killers were too well-armed
for students to have been able to stop them.

Associated Press | August 15, 2000




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