The correct answer is, a visit from the Secret Service.
The U.S. Secret Service is looking into the incendiary and potentially threatening remarks made by rocker and Mitt Romney-backer Ted Nugent at the National Rifle Association convention over the weekend.
“We are aware of them and we are conducting the appropriate follow-up now,” Secret Service spokesman George Ogilvie told ABC News.
Nugent told a crowd of convention goers that “if Barack Obama becomes the president in November, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.”
“If you can’t go home and get everybody in your lives to clean house in this vile, evil, America-hating administration, I don’t even know what you’re made of,” he said. The comments were caught on tape and posted online by the website Right Wing Watch.
The Democratic National Committee and Obama campaign have launched a multimedia offensive against Romney over Nugent, demanding that the presumptive GOP nominee disavow the statements of his high-profile supporter.
But the White House today refused to join in the condemnation and said that it won’t be “policing the statements of supporters across the board.”
I sure am glad that the Secret Service agreed with me. The rhetoric seemed a little extreme to me, but what do I know? Threats against the president, both explicit and implicit are usually taken very seriously. I don’t hold Mitt Romney responsible. I hold the NRA responsible. The mouth flashing happened on their watch. Poor Mitt would probably shoot his foot off if he handled a gun.
More to the point, the NRA is busy spreading lies and creating hysteria about Obama taking everyone’s guns. Clearly, that has never been suggested. Remember before President Obama was inaugurated? Ammunition was very scarce and had gotten expensive. Why? The rumor that Obama was rounding up everyone’s guns.
It’s really time for the lies to stop. Gun laws have become much less restrictive since 2008, across the nation. It’s time for thinking people to stop falling for NRA’s tricks. They and other 2nd amendment groups want your money and your membership. I see the crap that they send out. It comes to my house. It is alarmist and incendiary and has one purpose.
