Shawn Clark: Parents Should Decide When Kids are Ready for Guns

Sport shooting scribe Shawn Clark popped-up on TTAG’s radar with his column about shooting hogs with Ted Nugent, wrestler Dusty Rhodes and an NRA official (I swear didn’t make that up). As I said at the time, I’m a fan. “What am I getting at?” Clark inquires rhetorically (one hopes) in today’s column. “Do we … Read more

Hunting with Ted Nugent: As Surreal as it Gets??

You wait all day for a hunting story and BAM! Two come along at once. This time, we’re talking about a truly unique (as opposed to somewhat unique) piece of sports writing: The Shawn Clark column: Hanging with Ted always top notch. Unless you’ve got headline amensia, you’ll know that the Ted in question is one Mr. Nugent a.k.a., The Motor City Madman. Not that you’d know it otherwise; our Mr. Clark is no name dropper. We only hear of Mr. Nugent’s role in the hog hunt in paragraph five. Which is: host, raconteur and agent provocateur. “But aside from the hunt, we got to hang out with the owner of the property, Ted Nugent. It’s hard not to know him if you hunt, as he is one of the biggest advocates for hunters’ rights and gun owners across the country. He brought the executive director of the NRA, Chris Cox, with him on Friday, and he talked with us about Second Amendment issues, and why we need to keep fighting for our freedoms. Those guys really knew their stuff.” I don’t know about you, but that’s about as much detail as I want. You know; about that. About other stuff, I’m all pig’s ears. Such as, whatever happened to wrestler/true American hero Dustin “Dusty” Rhodes?

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