1. he was trying to provoke exactly the response he got. Good man. Why would he want to do that ? What purpose is served by producing evidence of how the shooting public feels about our right to bear whatever arms we choose ? This leads to:

2. the rich comfortable mainstream of the US shooting community (I’m thinking of fellas with $2000 trap guns, you can think of the Lexus-and-canned-hunts crowd) including their representatives within the NRA leadership are having incontinence problems at the prospect of a double-barreled Democratic Congress running amuck and the three witches Feinstein Pelosi and Clinton coming in the night to squeeze their balls while plundering their gun safes.

Well, don’t worry, men, we’ll protect you. You may be the same kind of spineless riffraff that’s facilitated oppression throughout human history, but you should have the same freedom to exercise your unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness at more than 2500 fps that we do. I hear drycleaning is best for soiled worsted wool, and urine comes out of Italian leather if you dry it quickly, in case you need advice in that area.

I note that said double-barreled Dem Congress has just emitted its first, easy-to-anticipate yelp in this year’s round of the Great Attempt to Ban Satanic Assault Weapons, HR1022 sponsored by that poor creature Carolyn McCarthy. While the text is not available yet, we do ask ourselves whether the “leadership” of the US shooting community is mustering their usual fortitude and weighing the costs and benefits of reaching some accomodation with the gun banners which let them keep their Sunday toys and get rid of those crazies with milspec weapons who make them kind of nervous anyway. They talk about guns being for overthrowing the established order, but since the leadership is firmly entrenched in the established order, does that mean them, too ? Woo hoo, hold on there we might have to rethink this.

Was the Zumbo post a float of a position of retrenchment to the redoubt in the face of fearsome Democratic aggression ? We can’t do any better…

It seems like the mainstream gun culture is greatly concerned with its ability to get it up, as evinced by the number of ads for erectile dysfunction curatives in its publications. Maybe if they were less worried about getting it up and more concerned with identifying a course of appropriate, and principled, action, designed first not to maintain membership headcount and revenue but to protect the firearms-related interests of all US citizens, they might be more effective in dealing with the antigun forces. We’ll be waiting for you to join us if you get to that point, fellas.

Google’s’ Cached Copy of Jim Zumbo’s Blog
http://tinyurl.com/2wdns6

Dump Zumbo Petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/zumbo07/petition.html

REMINGTON’S OFFICIAL RESPONSE:
http://tinyurl.com/25kzwr

That will only make it the definition of “shall not infringe” if your court dockets, witness statements, and majority opinions are, quite literally, written on BULLET PROOF paper!

Until that time, play your game… stuff your paycheck into that cesspool you call a life, and continue apologizing for all the Zumbo’s out there. One day you might even defend his ban on scary looking “terrorist” guns in court and WIN. Congratulations… but you still WILL NOT HAVE CHANGED THE DEFINITION OF “SHALL NOT INFRINGE”. And the day will come when you will be remembered as one of those misleading right alongside Mr. Zumbo.

Standard Mischief, that wasn’t an infringement on guns, gun ownership, or the right to bear arms. It was law to control and/or eliminate a certain behavior or the misuse of the tool, and describing part of the punishment for the illegal behavior.

OK, then, it took about a hundred years before the first law, that was even close to being “gun control”, to show up in the federal lawbooks. That says something.

I don’t hunt anymore, I still shoot. I don’t buy a hunting license or deer tag or duck stamp because I don’t hunt anymore. Game wardens are loath to believe you when they see you out and about on your way to a shooting area and almost always insist you are hunting. Luckily, every time it has happened to me, I have been armed, which means they weren’t as implacable as most leos. Over time they have learned that I really don’t hunt. However, since deer and other wild game have become so comfortable on my place that we sometimes stand in the yard together, I find it fair to do a lot of target practice when deer season approaches just to get them at least as spooky as normal in order to give them a chance of survival.

For instance, murder is against the law, so is armed robbery. Those aren’t gun control laws despite the confusion some like xlrq demonstrate.

And yes xlrq, “shall not be infringed” means shall not be infringed. It doesn’t mean only as much as someone wants, it means not at all. Really simple.

Here’s a hint: it doesn’t mean “inconvenience in any way, shape or form,” as many gunnies like to assume. If I hum a few bars of Stairway to Heaven, have I “infringed” a copyright?

It took the federal government about a hundred years before the first law regulating firearms came on the books. It stated that if someone was caught hunting in Yellowstone, and they had a fair trial and were convicted, then their firearms were then forfeited to the state.

That seems to me like a reasonable gun control law that does not infringe.

The fact that it took so long before the first law went on the books supports a strict interpretation.

And how many worthless-gun-owners* has this asshole produced? *those willing to compromise other gun owners over of the look of their firearm.

Most of them can get away with such idiocy because they write for newspapers. Zumbo’s paycheck comes from a magazine that tries to sell itself to gun owners, so naturally he had to eat crow to keep his job. But I doubt that most of the editorial staff at Outdoor Life noticed anything wrong with his comments until the shitstorm started.

Incidentally, Zumbo’s attitudes are not typical of rank-and-file hunters, as the comments on his blog clearly show. From what I’ve seen, there’s no big divide between the Fudds and the Black Rifle community; many, like myself, are part of both. It’s the persons like Zumbo who write hunting column for your local paper that create the impression there’s a divide.

I bet Jim’s career dissipation light is strobing right now.

A man cannot be stupid enough to make the remarks he did and have any idea of the struggle to uphold our Second Amendment. He truley lives in a vacuum. He is too insolated from the real world, real hunters, shooters and self defense. He is not one of us, and has truely insulted our vets, AR owners, as well as all of us. He can kep his opnions, his apology is worthless.

Thanks to SayUncle for this link to stupidity.

Forty-two years and he didn’t know a damn thing about the Constitution or firearms or gun owners or liberty but he has had an overnight epiphany? My mama may have raised a fool, but I’m fighting it harder than that.

Maybe I’m just in a forgiving mood today, but I think we should take him at his word when he says he was wrong. He did take responsibility for what he said, and he didn’t try and blame anyone else for his mistake.

I’m still angry, but I’m not one to call for someone’s head over one idiot comment, expecially since he’s in full CYA mode.

I can see he’s used his ‘Nuge lifeline and played his NRA card though.

That’s pretty rare, and it takes a lot of integrity to own up to something the way he did. He said he’s going to try and learn more about ARs. Works for me.

I can’t think of a penance that’s more fun, though… “You f’d up. Here’s an AR-15… go play.”

If that mindset is allowed to fester, we’re doomed…