Ted Nugent attacks Parkland students: 'The evidence is irrefutable, they have no soul'

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last updated 1 April 2018

Singer and National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent on Friday criticized the high school students who have become gun control advocates after surviving the mass shooting at their school in Parkland, Florida, in February.

"The level of ignorance goes beyond stupidity," Nugent said in a radio interview. He continued:

The dumbing down of America is manifested in the culture deprivation of our academia that have taught these kids the lies, media that have prodded and encouraged and provided these kids lies. I really feel sorry for them because it's not only ignorant and dangerously stupid, but it's soulless. To attack the good law-abiding families of America when well known predictable murderers commit these horrors is deep in the category of soulless. These poor children — I'm afraid to say this and it hurts me to say this — but the evidence is irrefutable, they have no soul. [Ted Nugent, via Media Matters]

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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