Evil people, beware. Ted Nugent wants me to shoot you.

The '70s rocker who gave us "Cat Scratch Fever" says I should get a gun, fight for the right to take it anyplace I please and use it liberally when I encounter someone doing evil.

In advance of his appearance at a right-wing fundraiser Saturday at Elstonville Sportsmen's Association, Nugent was on WHP 580 serving up red meat to his base.

And he made it clear that if you and I are not packing heat, if you and I oppose the gun lobby's agenda, then you and I — and Barack Obama, too — are "complicit" with the "evil" that stalks America.

Nugent went on to offer his three-point plan for making America safe.

No. 1, he said, join the National Rifle Association. No. 2, demand that dangerous criminals never get out of prison.

Trigger-happy advocate

And No. 3?

"Buy a gun," he said. "Carry a gun. Practice with a gun, because I'm going to say what everybody wants to say but they're afraid to:

"When a woman is about to be raped, I want her to kill the rapist. When someone invades your home, kill them. When someone attempts to carjack you and threaten your life, kill them."

He makes it sound like so much fun!

Nugent believes the end of gun violence is a gun in the hands of every law-abiding American, but I say, Remember Dick Cheney? For every evil person deterred by an armed civilian, how many good people are maimed or killed by accidental gunfire?

Still, the simplicity of Nugent's logic has a certain juvenile appeal, and no doubt his radio remarks sold a few $150 tickets to Saturday's event, at which the 60-year-old guitarist will demonstrate his archery prowess, say a few words and sell a few of his manly books.

But will he have the guts to confront protesters?

That's what Bryan Miller wonders. Miller some years ago left a 25-year career in international business to advocate full time for gun-violence-prevention measures.

He was spurred to take a stand after a man with a concealed assault pistol burst into a Washington police headquarters and killed three law-enforcement officers, including Miller's brother, an FBI agent.

Ever since, Miller has been on a mission, both as head of Ceasefire NJ and most recently as a leader of a newly formed faith-based initiative against gun violence, Heeding God's Call.

Appalling rant

Heeding God's Call has organized protests of a Philadelphia gun shop's refusal to sign on to business practices that would keep guns out of the hands of criminals.

Miller now wants people of faith to turn out at 12:45 p.m. Saturday for a prayer vigil across from the sportsmen's club on Pinch Road, north of Manheim, to counter Nugent's vitriolic gun-rights advocacy.

He points to Nugent's remarks at a 2007 concert, at which he wielded two assault pistols while referring to Obama as "a piece of" excrement and Hillary Clinton as a "worthless" obscenity, saying Obama should "suck on my machine gun" and Clinton should "ride one of these into the sunset."

Check it out on YouTube if you dare.

"Nugent, like the gun lobby, is making money on all of this irresponsible nonsense," Miller told me. "His violent rhetoric, in our view, encourages the use of things like assault pistols to resolve disputes. And that's more than inappropriate. That's dangerous."

On the radio, Nugent said bearing arms to protect "our precious gift of life from God" is a "spiritual obligation."

Seems to me people of faith might want to show they disagree.

E-mail: jhawkes@lnpnews.com