DENVER (AP) -- In his new book, rocker Ted Nugent suggests that students could have stopped last year's Columbine massacre by rushing one of the two gunmen.
Nugent, an avid bowhunter and a director of the National Rifle Association, also wrote that the April 20, 1999, shooting proved people should be allowed to carry concealed weapons.
"Even Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were nearly robotic in their methodical slaughter. After emptying a double-barreled shotgun, one knelt with his back to grown adults and athletes, sniveling, while he conversed with his next victim for minutes on end," Nugent wrote in "Gods, Guns and Rock N' Roll".
He autographed copies of his book Monday at a downtown book store as two police officers stood guard.
Tattered Cover Book Store owner Joyce Meskis said the store received several complaints about the event.
"But to inject our bias or the bias of another group into the decision over whether to allow an author to come is an affront to the First Amendment," she said.
Tom Mauser, whose son Daniel was one of the 12 students killed at Columbine, called Nugent's statements "despicable."
"I think he's living in this fantasy world where kids are crybabies if they don't fight back against somebody holding a gun," Mauser said.
Mauser, who said his son was shot a second time after shoving a chair at one of the gunmen, said he thought the killers were too well-armed for students to have been able to stop them.
