Jim Zumbo's anti-gun blog

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These are my two cents worth...

To make a statement like that, has to come from inside. This was not a thought out statement, that is why it is so attendant upon us to rid ourselves of those who harbor such bias, especially in public forum.

We all make mistakes. Apologizing is the right thing to do. I forgive Jim Zumbo his transgression. I don't hold grudges. But I have been involved in the hunting community working to protect our hunting and gun rights since 1993. In a sense, JZ is now a sacrificial lamb, but it had to be done. If you don't think shumer, Pelosi, Reed, Kerry aren't going to push for assault weapons ban and other gun control issues as hard as they can now they are in power, its important to remember that we must take anything and everything seriously.

To have JZ, the NOTED writer come out with such passion against a god given gun right without thought is serious stuff. It says what he is and who he is... this was not just a mistake, this is evident of his core belief, and I for one want no part of it..regardless that he is a gentleman.

There are somethings that one issue can take my vote... guns is one of them.

So though I agree with some that he probably had no malice, although he was pretty passionate about it.. I'm giving him a BIG benefit of the doubt here, but to so blithely dismiss a gun right, to so blithely remark that they are terrorist guns, and to so blithely state that they had no business in any hunting environment tells me a little something about him that is appalling, at the least, worrisome at best. I am a conspiracy theorist.

So being a conspiracy theorist that I am, a short coming I'm sure, you deal with cancers and gangrenous the same way... you cut it out, you cut if off.

He also has some aplologists working out there for him now too. MSNBC has an article about how he got seared by the gun owners. Some author, George Wray, I think it was, says this is how we are taught to deal with the infidels by the NRA! Wrong!

The response to Zumbo wasn't crafted. It was a very visceral thing, in response to an also very rooted rationality and judgement of fellow shooters by Zumbo.

Look closely at what he said gentlemen... look at his reply. The statement was from the heart alright, the reply was quite thought out. And he harbors no grudges .... gee whiz... Zumbo... that is awfully decent of you.. I don't hold a grudge against you either... But I don't want you back. I don't want you near my children nor especially my grandchildren. You sir... are a pervert of another kind.

First Amendment. Yes. But the First Amendment leaves you opportunity for consequence doesn't it. It gives our enemies the means to take the now written words of others and cast them against us. Zumbo did not say he felt that AR-15's, semi-automatic rifles had no place in HIS gun closet... he said that they had no place, essentially, in the hands of ANY law abiding citizen, for these were TERRORIST guns.

Don't lose sight. Zumbo's remarks are a plague. Treat them as such.


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