Why an AR over a good bolt gun?

[Reid73]

Yes, I am aware of that. I was using an analogy.

I take it that we can all agree that freedom of expression is an important right and should not be unduly curtailed by public or private action. No one should be "crushed" for voicing their opinion, despite the fact that other people may vehemently disagree with it.

 

[RockyMtnTactical]

No one should be "crushed" for voicing their opinion, despite the fact that other people may vehemently disagree with it.

So not true. Zumbo represented gunowners and when he betrayed the gun owning public by stating that AR15's were "terrorist" rifles he made a huge mistake. He has an obligation to gunowners being in the position he was in, as a sponsored gun writer.

He has the right to voice his opinion, but we also have the right to boycott him and his sponsors for voicing an opinion that was detrimental to gun owners.

Nobody denied him his 1st amendment right. Denying him his 1st amendment right would be censoring him or throwing him in jail for voicing his opinion. Instead he dealt with the consequences by the public that he represented and many in the outside of the gun world thought he spoke for.

I vote with my wallet all the time. It's the American way.

 

[TexasRifleman]

No one should be "crushed" for voicing their opinion, despite the fact that other people may vehemently disagree with it.

Oh, that's so completely untrue. If Disney corporation publicly announces they hate Blacks, Jews, and Women, should their business suffer? Should customers ignore that?

Zumbo was an employee, or paid writer at least, of a publication. That publications customers demanded the publication not print his drivel anymore.

What's the difference?

Should Zumbo be given a public forum in a publication whose customers have said they don't want to hear it?

Just doesn't work that way.

And as regards this discussion here, the infighting between gun owners will be exploited by the antis so anyone that promotes that kind of thing is an anti in my book.
If you don't like ARs? Keep quiet. Dont' like black powder? So what, no reason to shout it from the rooftops. Why the need to bad mouth another gun owner for liking something that you don't?

 

[ArmedBear]

I take it that we can all agree that freedom of expression is an important right and should not be unduly curtailed by public or private action.

Nobody tried to stop Zumbo from expressing himself. People let magazines know they would cancel their subscriptions. Refusing to give money to someone who supports an expression with which you disagree is, itself, a form of expression.

I do not owe Zumbo, or anyone else, a penny, to provide them with a platform to voice opinions I find abhorrent. I do not owe any magazine a penny, ever, for any reason.

I also find the very existence of PBS and NPR abhorrent in an ostensibly free country.

No one should be "crushed" for voicing their opinion, despite the fact that other people may vehemently disagree with it.

Nobody "crushed" Zumbo. Again, nobody OWES HIM A LIVING.

Personally, I wouldn't ever be interested in what he writes -- not as a political statement at this point, but because someone who displays such a total lack of critical thinking on a lot of levels can't be writing much that I want to waste my time reading.

 

[taliv]

looks like we're a long way from bolt gun vs AR now.