OTHER "gun" writers who need to feel the lash

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THIS thread is NOT about Zumbo or Petzal (subjects of other threads).
It is about the dozens of other "Fudds" presently employed in the "gun" writing business. Please don't combine it with irrelevant stuff or bury it in a hugh thread. Thanks for the courtesy.


Now, ... here is the first candidate for a new occupation.

From Sunday's Washington Post.
"This shows the zealousness of gun owners to the point of actual foolishness," said Pat Wray, a freelance outdoors writer in Corvallis, Ore., and author of "A Chukar Hunter's Companion."

Wray said that what happened to Zumbo is a case study in how the NRA has trained members to attack their perceived enemies without mercy.
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Add your own to the list.
 
Here's another.

MARK HENCKEL
Montana Outdoors

As I wrote to an outdoor writer friend of mine as this was blowing up, "You know, that could have been me. I could have written much the same as Zumbo did. I wouldn't have worded it that way. I wouldn't have called for a ban on those guns. But I know exactly what Jim was getting at in what he wrote."
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I don't read gun magazines but others do. Surely there are more of these Fudds who need to be exposed (and feel a bit of pain).
 
The knee-jerking is starting to get very silly.

I would rather we win the support of 100 gun/outdoor writers than sink the careers of another five or six. I don't see how you're going to do that if the only way you can win the argument is to "blacklist" them.

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I say give Wray the benefit of the doubt. He was in an MSNBC article and I don't trust them to quote him accurately. I wrote him and said I would like him to clarify what he meant.

This is not a brown shirt party. This is a unity party. If you are against us, we will not support you with our dollars. We as gun owners have been doing this for years. Finally we woke up and saw that the Fudds of this country need to be taught a lesson. And teach them we will.
 
I think this is really getting silly.

The community feels it. I think they learned the lesson. I said this on another one of these threads, and its appropriate here, too:

You know, Ronald Reagan supported the Gun Control Act in '86 that banned new manufacture of machine guns. Why don't you go after him, too? Gaston Glock has been known to be strongly opposed to civilian gun ownership. The Germans that make those Sigs and HKs probably had parents in the Nazi party. . .


At some point, this has got to end. I hope it ends before there's no one left to work in the gun industry.
 
I would agree. Zumbo was a special case. What he wrote was very damaging, and something had to be done. However, we now need to educate other gun writers to help them understand that gun ownership and the 2A is much more than hunting. By taking a myopic view, they damage us all, and themselves. If we can work WITH them, rather than against them, then we will be much better off.

The reference to brown shirts is totally uncalled for, though. No one has suggested violence or similar behavior. We live in an open society, and people are entitled to say and do what they please. Just as other gun writers have the right to write what they please, the public has the right to comment on it. To suggest that doing so is the same as the brown shirt thugs who intimidated through violence and death is not only not High Road, it is just plain ridiculous.
 
"You know, that could have been me. I could have written much the same as Zumbo did. I wouldn't have worded it that way. I wouldn't have called for a ban on those guns. But I know exactly what Jim was getting at in what he wrote.
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Stuff like that only reveals how truly out of touch a lot of these hunter spokesmen are...which is really a sad thing. Even with all this pot stirring mess, they still feel the exact same way and want to isolate themselves from the rest of the firearms community. He probably would have worded it "removal" instead of ban and "bad guy gun" instead of terrorist gun.

Its amazing that they continue to throw people that voiced their opinions under the bus hoping that they'd save their core readership. I'm angry that the situation is the way it is, but blacklisting is probably going to further fuel these people into spouting more moronic stuff that'll be used against us. It'll be hard to win the support of any of them though unless they want support...though I doubt there is an easy solution for unification given the current responses.
 
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