Assault Rifles for Hunters? (Zumbo goes mad)

Remington Country website ^ | 16 FEB 2007 | Jim Zumbo

[Dinsdale]

Sporting to me equates to "less lethal", which is less humane.

Which is why I hunt deer with claymore mines.

Kind of like cops and photo radar.

Sporting? Phhttttttttt!

[Joe Brower]

Ouch! Check out what just appeared on Remington's website (the green circle with the exclamation point). That sure was quick. Looks like Mr. Zumbo is hating life as of now.

I think it would be better to have him get an epiphany, though (with a little help from his friends in the firearms community), and then let him preach it from here on.

We don't have enough gunowners to afford to be able to eat one of our misguided own...

...And a tip of the hat to TNS for the tip.. !.

[Wonder Warthog]

"We don't have enough gunowners to afford to be able to eat one of our misguided own..."

If Dumbo Zumbo is that misguided, he's NOT "one of our own". And just maybe he'll be an object lesson to the OTHER "we're just hunters, we don't REALLY support the Second Amendment" types.

These fools don't realize that once the gun-grabbers succeed in demonizing semi-autos, they'll be after the bolt-actions next.

[Vision]

Wow!

[facedown]

The power of the internet. (and FR!)

[girlangler]

WOW.

I've been getting emails all day today from friends in the outdoor publishing/manufacturing business about this. What a shakeup.

Thanks for the ping.

[Smokin' Joe]

Thanks for that info--I stand corrected!

I knew they had semi-auto shotguns, (I own one), but was unaware of the rifle. I note they did not waste any time dissociating themselves from Mr. Zumbo, either. Maybe he will reconsider his position.

[Tijeras_Slim]

There's a hilarious Zumbo photoshop thread over at www.ar15.com. I stole this there.

[Joe Brower]

I hear what your saying. In my travels, and much to my chagrin and dismay, I have found that the endless and relentless agitprop against firearms over the last thirty years or so has had an incremental effect on even those minds who we would consider invulnerable.

It's a working example of Goebbel's aphorism that "if you say black is white and white is black long enough, people will come to believe it". We like to think of our minds, the human mind, as some powerful and rock-steady construct, but from my experiences, I can only say, "If only". History, past and present, makes it clear that the human mind is nowhere as rigid and clear a thing as we'd like to think, and unfortunately can and is molded like clay.

Thirty years of absorbing the leftmedia crapola, the insidious power of incrementalism and the agenda behind it being what it is, could very well have "programmed" Zumbo much more than he could ever have realized until he inadvertantly stepped in it, big time.

[GoldCountryRedneck]

We don't have enough gunowners to afford to be able to eat one of our misguided own...

Dunno 'bout that. We could look up and find a Zumbo in 'our ranks' being used by the grabbers as 'a noted hunting authority' advocate to outlaw those firarms he doesn't personally like.

Now more than ever, we need to be proactive in our identitfication of those within who would sell us out...

[Joe Brower]

That is absolutely hilarious!

[Tijeras_Slim]

[B4Ranch]

Remington knows where their money comes from..... Guys like us.

[Ladysmith]

Applause for Remington.

[Ladysmith]

Us womin, too. ;o)

[caver]

That was one career ending blog, kind of a Dixie Chicks moment!

[holymoly]

We don't have enough gunowners to afford to be able to eat one of our misguided own...

IMO He has nothing in common with me.

He admits on his own blog that he is:

"...totally ignorant about these types of guns."

Then why didn't he just keep his mouth shut?

The Brady Campaign is already quoting him:
Even Remington's top gun writer agrees on Assault Weapons

And yes, the above blog does belong to the Brady Campaign:
Brady Campaign Launches MySpace Page

This man would be better employed by the Brady Campaign or the Violence Poverty Center.

[coloradan]

PW3ND

[Joe Brower]

Please see my post# 209.

I'm not making excuses for the guy -- as I've already said myself, he's already done damage. But, just an observation.

[Joe Brower]

Y35, 1nd33d.