Ted Nugent Attacks Piers Morgan For His 'Obsession' With Guns: 'Will You Leave Us The Hell Alone?

morgan nugent | Ted Nugent Attacks Piers Morgan For His 'Obsession' With Guns: 'Will You Leave Us The Hell Alone? When Ted Nugent sat down with Piers Morgan in Texas tonight, he delivered the CNN host his most explosive interview since last month's showdown with Alex Jones.

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Morgan began by asking Nugent to explain to him, "in the least inflammatory way possible" why Americans need the AR-15 assault rifle. When Nugent began talking about the millions of Americans who own guns and have "never caused a problem, never had an accident and will never commit a crime," Morgan responded by listing off the number of gun murders and suicides each year in this country.

"Do you care about murders?" Nugent asked. "Or do you only care about about murders with guns?"

Morgan answered, "I care about all death."

"I don't think you do," Nugent shot back. "I think you care about guns. You're obsessed with guns." He then went off on a tear that summed up his and many other gun advocates' position: "99.99% of the gun owners of America are wonderful people that you are hanging around with here today. Perfectly safe. Perfectly harmless. Wonderful, loving, generous, giving, caring people. Would you leave us the hell alone? Go after the nut jobs, go after the murderers, because I don't know any. We need to lock up the bad guys and when people show dangerous, murderous intent, which everyone one of these mass murderers showed — all their neighbors, their family, their teachers, their fellow students, they all knew they were crazy but, Piers, we didn't stop them because we're worried about hurting their feelings. We have a mad man problem in America... let's focus on that and leave the rest of us alone."

When Nugent was done, Morgan told me, "I won't leave you alone because there's a debate that needs to be had." After a break, he asked Nugent to respond specifically to President Obama's gun proposals.

Nugent proceeded to slam the "scammer-in-chief" on everything from Benghazi to Egypt, saying he was re-elected by a "clueless majority." "I don't agree with President Obama on any of this." Asked if he thinks America will be safer now that semi-automatic guns and ammo are flying off the shelves in places like Texas, Nugent said "Absolutely. An armed society is a polite society."

And when Morgan brought up that Nugent already accepts some limits to the second amendment by accepting that he cannot have an "armored tank" outside his house, Nugent responded, "Are you sure about that?"

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[Right2Carry1911]

Someone needs to drop Piers in one of the bad areas in any major city on his own. I bet he'll wish he had a gun real quick, that is if he survives long enough to have a thought.

[Ken Dall]

@Aarrmehearties i am not crazy. I have never even shot AT someone, even on accident or even came close. In fact i have never had a gun go off unintentionally ever and thats how most gun owners are. Its gangsters with illegal guns killing each other. They dont value life at all they will beat each other to death bare handed if they cant get guns.

[scottbw12]

if you lived in America you'll see it's not a fascination, rather a necessity. Like ted said, They've tried gun controls in Chicago and other places and murder rates of innocent victims goes up, because the spineless criminal has less fear instant retaliation, think logically this is the worst idea ever until we all got rid of all our governments, Mafioso bankers and tried to heal the monetary problems to have a better America a better world.

[scottbw12]

advocates for these laws, brought in because of our country's credentials on the amount of guns, although I know quite a few people who own them illegally. The real reason they care is not for dead, which I pointed out evil finds a way, is because they don't want them to protect themselves from the from the tyranny of the government themselves piers morgan is a snake with no moral code in his back history and makes a pathetic argument.

[scottbw12]

given the wrong frame of mind you could curb you car and kill many pedestrians, jump out then continue assault with a knife causing more death. the point is many who are in the right frame of mind do envisage the use of there guns for such acts and where there is supposed to be no guns there still will be guns I know from personal experience. The real reason is that rats like piers Morgan who I'm ashamed to say is from my country.

[Chris Slawek]

My oldest 2 children's mother died from a car wreck. Should we outlaw cars? Or maybe just Fords?

[Chris Slawek]

Rock on Ted! Guns don't kill people. People kill people!

[FejjNagaf]

I see. So people who don't have an education that goes beyond high school aren't smart and can't perfectly state any positions, because those positions are therefore invalid. That's a very informed argument you make there. Who else didn't complete college? Bill Gates, Carl Bernstein, Ray Bradbury, Sergey Brin, Winston Churchill, Michael Dell, Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg... All idiots, right? Maybe Nugent is smarter than Morgan (maybe you?) and that makes you mad...