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NRA Video Promotes Ted Nugent's Fave Hobby: Shooting Feral Pigs From Helicopters [View all]
Josh Sugarmann Executive director, Violence Policy Center
Posted: 08/15/2013 1:50 pm
Remember last month when National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent bragged about shooting feral hogs in Texas with a machine gun from a helicopter -- and then "joked" about how he'd like to do the same to the residents of South Central (now South) Los Angeles?
For most people, the image offered by Nugent -- feral hogs, helicopters, and machine guns -- would be hard to imagine. Let alone how this could be viewed as a "sport."
But a new video sent out by "NRA Outdoors: Hunting & Fishing Destinations" in an email promoting just such a hunt (except with semi-auto assault rifles instead of full-auto machine guns) leaves little to the imagination.
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Most striking is that seeing what a feral hog hunt actually looks like, and knowing that he's a cheerful promoter as well as participant, Nugent's "joke" about gunning down "South Central" residents now has a dark visual resonance that amplifies an image that was already as depraved as it was disturbing.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-sugarmann/nra-video-promotes-ted-nu_b_3762858.html
Posted: 08/15/2013 1:50 pm
Remember last month when National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent bragged about shooting feral hogs in Texas with a machine gun from a helicopter -- and then "joked" about how he'd like to do the same to the residents of South Central (now South) Los Angeles?
For most people, the image offered by Nugent -- feral hogs, helicopters, and machine guns -- would be hard to imagine. Let alone how this could be viewed as a "sport."
But a new video sent out by "NRA Outdoors: Hunting & Fishing Destinations" in an email promoting just such a hunt (except with semi-auto assault rifles instead of full-auto machine guns) leaves little to the imagination.
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Most striking is that seeing what a feral hog hunt actually looks like, and knowing that he's a cheerful promoter as well as participant, Nugent's "joke" about gunning down "South Central" residents now has a dark visual resonance that amplifies an image that was already as depraved as it was disturbing.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-sugarmann/nra-video-promotes-ted-nu_b_3762858.html
On behalf of the people of Los Angeles - Fuck You Ted Nugent
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