I don’t care what he feels in his heart. This is much less a moral issue wherin I am concerned about his soul. This is very much a practical matter for me.

We didn’t eat ‘im…we just bit ‘im.

Nor am I a “Gun Nut.” I am a firearm enthusiast with no ownership-restricting mental illnesses.

So I offer that as prima facie evidence of his willing ignorance.

Did you hear the interview on Tom Gresham’s Gun Talk show right after the SHTF? It was definitely an interview with a man, who, for all his hunting experience, is not a gunnie, and doesn’t get it. The only reason he owns guns was because he needed them to hunt.

Did some of the folks on our side go overboard during the Zumbo Affair? Sure, just like people go overboard all the time for a ton of reasons. However, I still think the guy got what he deserved. We didn’t eat one of our own, because he isn’t one of us.

But I really agree with straightarrow.

He knew what he was saying and he meant it.

He has subsequently realized that the people who pay money to his sponsors are understandably angry and that he can be replaced with someone who doesn’t loathe and detest other types of guns.

If he truly wants to now call himself one of us, I have no problem because my own thinking about guns and freedom have evolved quite a bit over the years.

Better late than never.

However, we didn’t cannibalize anyone, including one of our own.

We reacted angrily to someone who analogized us with terrorists.

He got what he deserved.

I got it, prescription cough medicine. That’s the ticket. When you do a Kerry it is tough to come back.

I’d rather see “Gun Owner Cannibalization” on the headlines one day than see “Remington Spokesman Calls Gun Owners Terrorists” every time the Brady campaign gets a pearl of text (shit covered by something shiny) in A-section.

The Second Amendment, which guarantees us the right to keep and bear arms, has nothing to do with hunting, but everything to do with gun ownership.

There it is. He gets it. He does talk about hunting, but, as I read it, only because he’s talking to other hunters, trying to get them to see the light as well.

Otherwise I think all his self-flagellation and �seeing the light� by shooting Nugent�s AR and taking courses, etc. (I am surprised he hasn�t said he feels �empowered�) is nothing more than Betty Ford for shooters. All publicity with an appropriate amount of mea culpas and testimonials to a higher ethic and �having learned the lesson, just don�t make me pay for it � crap to salvage a career.

My opinion is subject to alteration if he can prove he really is stupid. Otherwise I don�t believe his overnight epiphany. He has a better chance of getting me to hold the sack at a midnight snipe hunt.