I mean, let's face it... assuming that each of the three or four thousand gun owners that responded to Zumbo's blog entries, or wrote scathing e-mails, represents 20 other gun owners... that's still only sixty to eighty thousand gun owners out of... What? Eighty million? What comes next?
Yeah.
60-80,000 people were outraged -
in one weekend flat.
Zumbo posted his drivel on Friday.
By Sunday he had posted his "apology", prompted by the flaming by some 3,000 posters.
By Monday - a federal holiday - Outdoor Life had pulled Zumbo's blogs, Remington had
officially severed ties, Gerber
officially expressed their dismay, and who knows what other behind-the-scenes withdraws of sponsorship and other severing of ties had occurred.
By Wednesday, TheHighRoad.org alone had its primary thread extend to an astounding 779 posts (not including related threads).
Who knows how many Outdoor Life cancellations are still enroute thru the mail.
All because of one 19-sentence posting on a relatively obscure (by MSM standards) website by a writer much/most of the outraged audience had not heard of or cared about.
That a media technology can move 0.1% of all gun owners to outrage and action
in a mere weekend is huge.
The NRA can't motivate people that fast, and it's a professional lobby group second only to the AARP.
What comes next?
Those 80,000 outraged gunowners each tell 10 friends who care.
Outdoor Life magazine suddenly realizes that EBR hunting is a viable market after all.
Politicians take note that an overlooked minority can get a move on FAST.
All because one old writer with sore feet wrote a few ill-chosen sentences last Friday.
And today is merely Wednesday.