Jim Zumbo's Apology

[Chunky Monkey]

I get updates from Field and Stream and they apparently did a 10 question interview with him. I don't get the feeling that he is sincerely sorry but that is my opinion. Not sure if you read it or not but here it is.
http://http://fieldandstream.blogs.c...estions_f.html

[LorDiego01]

http://www.fieldandstream.blogs.com/...estions_f.html

Fixed your link fer ya.

[LittleRedToyota]

he just still doesn't get it.

i'd like to tattoo "the second amendment is not about hunting" on his forehead...backwards, of course, so he gets the message every time he looks in the mirror.

this is not an issue about hunters vs. black rifle enthusiasts. the issue is the balance of power between the people and the government--those who think the people should fear the government vs. those who think the government should fear the people.

but, hey whatever...he can say what he wants and think what he wants...but he still has not addressed the real issue. and he may have spent 40 years defending the 2nd amendment, but he doesn't understand what he's been defending.

[Lycanthrope]

I'll be curious to see how long he drags this media circus out.


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[LittleRedToyota]

Originally Posted by Lycanthrope

I'll be curious to see how long he drags this media circus out.

yeah, he even admitted he was trying to generate comments on his blog...guess he succeeded in that part.

[T Durdin]

I don't get the feeling that he is sincerely sorry but that is my opinion.
- ChunkyMonkey

It didn't feel it was sincere either. I think he's just sorry he got his ass in some hot water.

I'm a hunter, and semi-auto rifle owner. Guns are like golf clubs, you can't use just one type do everything; you can't putt with a wood, you can't drive with a sand wedge.

A few years back me and my girl lived in this farm house at the end of long dirt lane in the middle of no where. A low rent trailer park was near the entrance to our lane. The other apartment in the farm house had been vacant for 6 months. One night my girl was at work, she took my car- her's wasn't running. A car came down the lane, and 3 dudes came to our door. I answered with my AK with 75 rd drum loaded.

I said' "What the fuck do you want?" As soon as I opened the door, one of them walked over to my right as if to out flank me. They asked if "April" was there, some girl I never heard of. It was not the name of the previous tenant of our unit. 2 of them were "home boy" types, and the other seemed like average suburbanite 20 year old. I think they were there 'cause they were casing out these apartments. I definitely think they were there thinking my girl would be the only one around. If they were armed, and who says they weren't, how would I deal with 3 assailants with only a single shot hunting gun?????????????

Ever hear the saying it's better to not need it and have it, than need it and not have it?

I met lot's of guys over the years who didn't give a crap about defending the second amendment because they thought, well, they only got hunting guns. And the Anti-Gun people will never come after their hunting guns. Yeah, right.

Just go back 3 years or so and look into Congresses Amunition restriction study. Suddenly your hunting gun is a "High powered sniper rifle," the cop in their test video is showing them how he can"shoot through cinder blocks" and "these types of bullets will go right through body armor."

EVERYBODY needs to keep defending the Second Amendment, no mater what kind of guns they own, or we'll all lose out.

[BearTitan]

I think the guy screwed up (as we have all done from time to time). I vehemently oppose the remarks that got him in hot water. I support the firearms owners who pushed for his resignation.

However, he is a gun owner, and he did apologize. Let's stick together...all of us.

Nothing makes the anti's happier than us fighting among ourselves.

[Chunky Monkey]

Originally Posted by LorDiego01

http://www.fieldandstream.blogs.com/...estions_f.html

Fixed your link fer ya.

Thanks LorDiego01!

[sgh]

From a post on another web forum. A copy of Zumbo's letter to congress on his blog comments, etc. This is the way to earn back the shooting publics respect.

An Open Letter to the United States Senate

Dear Honorable Ladies and Gentlemen:

It recently came to my attention that one of your colleagues, Michigan Sen. Carl Levin, has chosen to attack firearms owners using remarks I wrote in mid-February as his launch pad. As you probably know, Sen. Levin has been making anti-gun speeches every week for the past eight years because of a promise he made to the Economic Club of Detroit in May 1999.

Mr. Levin has an agenda, and he should have spoken to me before using my name in one of his speeches, especially since his remarks were entered into the Congressional Record. I would like my remarks here entered into the Congressional Record as well.

Sen. Levin is only one of 16 members of the Senate to vote against the Vitter Amendment to the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act. This amendment prohibits the confiscation of a privately-owned firearm during an emergency or major disaster when possession of that gun is not prohibited under state or federal law.

Eighty-four senators voted for that amendment, inspired by the egregious confiscation of firearms from the citizens of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina in the summer of 2005. Those seizures, you will recall, led the Second Amendment Foundation and National Rifle Association to join in a landmark civil rights lawsuit in federal court that brought the confiscations to an abrupt end.

The taking of private property without warrant or probable cause - even firearms - was considered an outrage by millions of American citizens, and yet Sen. Levin joined 15 of his colleagues in voting against this measure. It is no small wonder that Sen. Levin gets an "F" rating from gun rights organizations. He would have American citizens disarmed and left defenseless at a time when they need their firearms the most, when social order collapses into anarchy and protecting one's self and one's family is not simply a right and responsibility, it becomes a necessity.

That in mind, Sen. Levin must know that almost immediately after I wrote those remarks, I recanted and apologized to the millions of Americans who lawfully and responsibly own, compete with and hunt with semi-automatic rifles. I took a "crash course" on these firearms and visited with my good friend Ted Nugent on his ranch in Texas, where I personally shot an AR-15 and educated myself with these firearms.

Some of us learn from our mistakes, others keep making them. Legislation to which Sen. Levin alluded, HR 1022, would renew the ban on so-called "assault weapons," and dangerously expand it to encompass far more perfectly legal firearms. For the Congress of the United States to even consider such legislation is an affront to every law-abiding firearms owner in this country.

This legislation that Sen. Levin appears to endorse is written so broadly as outlaw not only firearms, but accessories, including a folding stock for a Ruger rifle. As I understand the language of this bill, it could ultimately take away my timeworn and cherished hunting rifles and shotguns - firearms I hope to one day pass on to my grandchildren - as well as millions of identical and similar firearms owned by other American citizens.

It is clear to me that the supporters of this legislation don't want to stop criminals. They want to invent new ones out of people like me, and many of you, and your constituents, friends, neighbors and members of your families. They will do anything they can, go to any extremes they believe necessary, to make it impossible for more and more American citizens to legally own any firearm.

In his final paragraph, Senator Levin misrepresents what I said. I never spoke in favor of a general assault weapons ban. Again, I immediately apologized for my blog statement that was exclusively directed toward hunting and not gun ownership.

I will not allow my name to be associated with this kind of attack on the Second Amendment rights of my fellow citizens.

A few weeks ago, in a letter to Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, I promised to educate my fellow hunters about this insidious legislation "even if I have to visit every hunting camp and climb into every duck blind and deer stand in this country to get it done."

I will amend that to add that I will bring my effort to Capitol Hill if necessary, even if I have to knock on every door and camp in every office of the United States Senate. In promoting this ban, the Hon. Carl Levin does not speak for me, or anybody I know.

Sincerely,
James Zumbo
Cody, Wyoming

[awkx]

See also www.pafoa.org/forum/general-2/4309-more-jim-zumbo.html#post43292.