Posted on 02/25/2007 9:01:38 PM PST by Mike THE BEAR Chavez
In light of comments made by Jim Zumbo in his February 16, 2007 blog posting on the magazine’s website, Mr. Zumbo has offered to terminate his association with Outdoor Life, and the magazine has accepted his offer.
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Huh. I just clicked on it and it works great for me.
That is your right. But I can't for the life of me recall you ever calling for the choice other folks make to be banned by the Government.
He should have known better than to use the word "ban" under any circumstance.
One would think so, but apparently Mr. Zumbos snobbery got the better of him. It's too bad. I enjoyed his show even though it's most likely I'll never be able to afford a Montana Elk or Rocky Mountain Sheep hunt. And I'll certainly never be able to afford some of the fine custom rifles he toted around.
Well let this be a lesson to all those TV hunting guys that it's not just hunters who watch their shows and read their columns. Hopefully some of those idiots in DC are paying attention to what just happened here as well.
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Zumbo said, "I say game departments should ban them (military rifles) from the praries and woods."
Frankly, that is the part I don't get. The very weapons he decried are ideal for an old fart to use for defense. Don't get me wrong, I am a very fit and young great-grandpa, but some day the M1A is going to weigh a little heavy in my hands and I'll prefer a lighter weapon with even less recoil.
For a man whose stock in trade was the use of words, ill-conceived does not come close to what he did with his phraseology. A writer, a gun/hunting writer, of all people should have known better.
That he could write those statements could even deign to dub an AK clone or AR a "terrorist" gun by mistake defies the imagination.
Nope. He crapped in his mess-kit, bigtime... and the dinner bell went off round the web.
It is abundantly gracious of Ted Nugent to offer the guy a chance for reform, and to make an apology. That is to Ted's credit. As for Mr Zumbo, we'll see, but trust broken is seldom restored.
Zumbo used the phrase, "hunting fraternity".
"Zumbo never said that.
What's the matter with you people? Hounding Zumbo out of a job isn't enough to satisfy your thirst for vengeance, so now you have to manufacture evidence?"
Zumbo said: "I say game departments should ban them from the prairies and woods,"
News flash for Byron: Game departments are GOVERNMENTAL agencies.
Maybe you're thinking of the Elks Lodge or the Lion's Club?
Good analysis and well-said.
Well, he's about to experience a sharp drop in his income, so he may not be commissioning any custom rifles for quite some time.
Finally got it to work. Thanks. Nothing that about a dozen tries wouldn't cure. :>
That's worse. The Second Amendment isn't about hunting, but when he condemns AR he shows his ignorance. How can a hunter and shooter for forty-something years not understand ARs to such an extent that he says we look like terrorists for even having them and that they should be banned in the field?
Hear hear.
We shall see what he does to make amends for his truly grievous error.
but some day the M1A
Now I know you to be not only a fine judge of character but a man of excellent taste as well.
Regards,
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Thank you!
"Sickening stuff.
After Zumbo's decades of positive contributions to hunting..... he made a mistake, he apologised for it, but everyone wants their pound of flesh."
He may have been good to his dog, but this issue is about the second amendment.
>>Otherwise, gun grabbers will use him as a martyr to paint lovers of the Constitution as psychotic, unforgiving meanies.
I've already experienced Leftis doing exactly that.
Only the liberal ones. Freedom lovers are in the fight of our lives with the the (rhymes with hunt) Carolyn McCarthy and the other Democraps pushing a sweeping ban of those very weapons that Dumbo Zumbo dismissed as terrorist weapons. His elitist "guns are for hunting" attitude is what the gun ban crew say also. So if he made a "mistake" it was publishing his true feelings. The 2nd amendment isn't about hunting it's about being able to successfully resist tyranny.
His apology was as genuine as could be expected
Oh and I read both versions of his so called apology. In it he stated that he didn't realise that semi-autos "had legitimate sporting purposes" which isn't what gun ownership in the USA is about and showing that he still isn't admitting that what he said is wrong. He's simply compounding the error.
"...do you like being called a terrorist by somebody who's supposedly on your side...
He never called you (or anyone else) a terrorist.
You guys just making stuff up, now?"
Cleary you your prolific opinions are without benefit of actually having read Zumbo's initial words nor his subsequent "apologies".
Is this a "mistake" too?
"..if it's "selling out" and "cowardice," to sever ties with a writer who terms a product they manufacture a "terrorist" weapon, I just wonder how you'd define courage...
LOL! 'Courage'? Don't flatter Remington, pal.
A few frightened e-mails back and forth to their PR firm doesn't constitute courage."
And how would you characterize Zumbo's swift retractions, when faced with financial loss? Courage?
Horse hockey.
All that shows is that they wet their pants easily. If a major spree shooting was undertaken with a Remington semi-auto and President Hildabeast demanded they stopped production of those models they'd wet their pants just as fast.
Right. And that ain't the same as a 'governmental ban', is it?
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