MATT SORUM To TED NUGENT: 'You Are A Sick Individual'

[dilatedmind]

Matt Sorum has slammed Ted Nugent over the legendary rocker's known love of hunting, calling Nugent a "sick individual."Earlier today, the former GUNS N' ROSES drummer took to Twitter to comment on a specific photo he found of Nugent in which Ted can be seen smiling while standing next to a preteen boy after apparently killing a groundhog with his bow and arrow."Hey @tednugent u are a sick individual , u are smiling too much for killing this animal. Something wrong w u, poor kid," Sorum wrote (see tweet below).In a February 2014 interview with PennLive.com, Nugent attacked animal-rights activists who, he said, were under "the influence of mind-altering chemicals to think the animals that feed us have the same right as you and me.""So do animals have the same rights before the barbeque or after the barbeque?" Nugent said.Nugent added that hunters and trappers had helped create the most successful wildlife management system ever seen in history. "Someone wants to ban this?" he said. "I laugh in their face and kill extra animals for these numb-nuts. Yes, we are under attack, but they are losing and we are winning."Although Sorum's passion has always been the drums, in recent years he has turned his attention to larger social issues. He co-founded Adopt The Arts with the aim of ensuring that all school children have an opportunity to express themselves creatively through art and music.Matt and Adopt The Arts formed a partnership with International Fund For Animal Welfare to bring education and awareness of elephant conservation into elementary schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District through the IFAW Animal Action education program. As part of this initiative, hundreds of students from 40 schools participated in the Love Elephants art contest, which was displayed in a public exhibit at Bergamot Station Arts Center in the spring of 2013.Sorum last month penned an open letter to fellow musicians urging their support for the U.S. government's new strategy for minimizing America's role in the elephant poaching crisis and subsequent ivory trade taking place in the world today.

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@tednugent

u are a sick individual , u are smiling too much for killing this animal Something wrong w u, poor kid

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— matt sorum (@mattsorum)

July 12, 2014

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[Midi]

Matt Sorum has slammed Ted Nugent over the legendary rocker's known love of hunting' date= calling Nugent a "sick individual."Earlier today, the former GUNS N' ROSES drummer took to Twitter to comment on a specific photo he found of Nugent in which Ted can be seen smiling while standing next to a preteen boy after apparently killing a groundhog with his bow and arrow."Hey @tednugent u are a sick individual , u are smiling too much for killing this animal. Something wrong w u, poor kid," Sorum wrote (see tweet below).In a February 2014 interview with PennLive.com, Nugent attacked animal-rights activists who, he said, were under "the influence of mind-altering chemicals to think the animals that feed us have the same right as you and me.""So do animals have the same rights before the barbeque or after the barbeque?" Nugent said.Nugent added that hunters and trappers had helped create the most successful wildlife management system ever seen in history. "Someone wants to ban this?" he said. "I laugh in their face and kill extra animals for these numb-nuts. Yes, we are under attack, but they are losing and we are winning."

I'm not sure how to comment on this. Part of it simply looks cruel and another part of it hardly makes sense...

[Iceni]

They're from GnR, I couldn't give a rat's ass anyway...

[FatherAlabaster]

They're from GnR' date=' I couldn't give a rat's ass anyway...[/quote'] They? Sorum is, at least, and he's actually a really solid drummer. It's cool that he's trying to advance the arts and animal conservation. Nugent, ah, there's nothing to understand there, he's a violent, loudmouthed moron. Not sure why it matters who said what to who on Twitter, but fuck that guy, anyway.

[Iceni]

What annoys me about animal conservationists is that they tend to take attention away from the much more serious problems in the habitats of the animals they protect. For example, there was little to no domestic action here in the US (or anywhere, for that matter) to alleviate the horrors of the Rwandan genocide (a rational decision, I think, it could have gotten a lot worse under intervention). At least, except for one instance - there was a significant public campaign to assure the safety of the mountain gorillas threatened by the clashes between the FPR and Interahamwe. Conservationists in Africa at least make a habit of instituting draconian penalties for poaching when in fact in many cases (if not most - the valuable ivory-endowed animals are hard to find) your average poaching incident is perpetrated by some impoverished Masai killing an impala or eland to feed their families.