Well, I found that gem of crazy uncle Ted's and then sat back a week to see what You guys think.
Here is my tarnished pennies worth.
Ted is now day's a truly decent man, but as a young man at the top of the rock world he was a sick puppy, he had a sex addiction often with under age women ( girls ) groupies who would flock to his entourage.
He got arrested for border line pedophilia yada yada yada ( look it up ) and so he was a punk, all be it a sober anti dope punk, but seriously back then he should have been gunned down in the parking lot of a rock concert by one of the fathers of the girls with a gun he now advocates as sacred > Daughters are more 'sacred' than Glocks !
My 2nd Amendment is for >>>>>>>> sex offenders <<<<<,> as well as hoodie punks on crack.
He doges the draft, avoids service, ( Jimmy Hendricks did not he was an 82 Air born jumper , a MUCH better guitarist and MUCH better lyricist musician )
Years & years go by, he looses his women in a car crash, he goes thru some soul searching because he really is deep inside he really is a decent guy, he just got caught up on his own cult of personality.
Ted finds himself looking into the mirror at a shallow empty meaningless hypocrite who serves no real purpose than to be good guitar player player as an extraordinary very animated one man circus act entertainer clown and he admits it to himself ( and God ) and has an awakening ( Christians call it a repentance - conversion ) he straitens up and fly's right and starts to use some of the personality gifts, quirks and endless stream of consciousness to
do something about the country he has lived off , fiddling his guitar and play with girls all the while the USA burns like Rome.
I don't think Ted can live with the punk he use to be, he is a very emotional person, and he can be made to explode in rage over illogical, and yet cry in sympathy for a wounded vet, and that is our funky uncle T
So now we have the older Uncle Ted, smart, ultra articulate, still rebellious & semi psychotically zealous, now with kids and now he sees the young rockers and his kids from a dad's perspective and starts to 'get it', he is now more refined but still kind of 'strange' yet harmless to anyone who sees that he is an old dude who wants to be real and be a real asset to the country that gave him the opportunities he took advantage of to the 10th power, and pay back the vets who literally sheltered him from harm with their bodies by the thousands in foreign countries so he could have play around and have the good life.
I dig the zany harmless Ted, I dig the debate speech Ted, but the emotional ego-testicle Ted is still a bit childish and unwise and so he shoots his foot like that DEA agent showing the school kids his Glock on YouTube.
So now days I think he is basically good and has a love of country and a want's to 'make it up' to the soldiers in his own way.
I tend to be positively polarized and root for there good in people over the dark side or parts of their character that is truly or was truly flawed.
I would bet that Ted in person without the silly cameras that he has trained on himself all the time, just alone one on one is a very mild & meek average good guy.
As for the "kooks" quote by Ted that I started this post off with , well, I disagree cause he is calling ME a kook and yet he does have a certain point and I'll tell you why he has a point > I have met 3 other open carriers and 2 out of 3 were KOOKS !!!
Seriously , one is a boneheaded very immature camera ***** who walks down the street with an AK47 and wants to be stopped so he can proclaim 2A Rights, and he acts like he has borderline personality disorder ( Kook ), thee other is a total anti social mean angry punk with an extreme inferiority complex ( Kook ).
The only level headed open carry guy in my part of Oregon that I have met that is 'normal" is WeThePeople ( his ID on this site ) who is my Marine / Law student buddy.
So in my experience I am batting 50/50 if I throw myself into the normal side, but then again if any of You have read my posts , hell I am considered a Kook by many of you guys , lol.
Admittedly my alien from outer space from the planet ding dong writing style is NOT the norm, but if You meet me in person , you would see that I am squared away , mild mannered and level headed. I think Ted is too , we just need to get him one on one and show him not all of us ( I mean you guys lol ) are not Kooks.
Finally , about Ted> If Obama can drive you insane then you must be sane !
Peace
You gotta be sane if Obamma drive you insane.