An exclusive. Thanks for the heads up. Good to know.

Your utter cluelessness amazes me.

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SayUncle
Can't we all just get a long gun?

So Steve is "clueless" and #9 is all sarcastic and stuff because Steve doesn't read the gun blogs all day every day and brings up a story that made the WP today?

Personally, I think it's pretty clueless to hunt prarie dogs with assault rifles (oh, excuse me, legal guns that look like assault rifles).

But what's even more clueless is getting Dixie Chick'd and losing your job for having an opinion and expressing it by people who don't see anything wrong with hunting prarie dogs with assault rifles (excuse me, legal guns that look like assault rifles).

Sadly, it appears readers and participants at KnoxViews aren't cool enough play with assault rifles (excuse me, legal guns that look like assault rifles) and read gun blogs all day every day. We will try to get over it.

The story here is not whether assault rifles are good hunting weapons or not.

The real story is that gun people are no longer allowed to have rational discussions even amongst themselves. They have now destroyed the career of one of their long time champions for even questioning their dogma. On top of that, they are using the "See what we do to someone we have loved! Think what we'll do to you," threat directed at lawmakers.

If you aren't stomping in time, with knees locked, eyes straight ahead, arm rigidly outstretched, and brain in "yes, leader" mode...you, too, will pay...And don't expect the cowards at Outdoor Life or any other media to stand up for a thoughtful point of view. That's the real tragedy.

And Unk, I got guns and rifles, my kids got guns and rifles, and my wife got guns and rifles, too. But they live in a safe...Not in a shrine.

Peace,

Steve

"So Steve is "clueless" and #9 is all sarcastic and stuff because Steve doesn't read the gun blogs all day every day and brings up a story that made the WP today?"

He's clueless for referring to people upset at being called 'terrorists' as crazy.

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SayUncle
Can't we all just get a long gun?

Unk said:

He's clueless for referring to people upset at being called 'terrorists' as crazy.

That is one of those half truths - whole lies, Unk.

(But then I expected as much from you.) Here's the quote from the man you people are eviscerating. As everyone else will see, it is a rational expression of concern for us fellow hunters and the way other people will view us if they think we are in the woods with assault weapons. He was trying to prevent exactly what you and yours are hell bent to prove:

"As hunters, we don't need to be lumped into the group of people who terrorize the world with them. . . . I'll go so far as to call them 'terrorist' rifles."

Zumbo isn't being cast out for speaking truth to power. He is the power. He's part of the old media gun rag aristocracy, complete with his endorsement contract with Remington (now severred).

Tam said it best: "Your attempt to throw me out of the sleigh, hoping that the wolves would be satisfied with my AR and would leave your precious bambi-zapper alone, is the most craven act of contemptible cowardice I've seen in a while."

www.lesjones.com

Yeah, yeah.

The celebrities who celebrate your point of view are pinheads to whom we should pay no attention whatsoever. The celebrities who celebrate my point of view are concerned citizens who have done their homework and speak from the heart.

The most extreme example or action of an individual who agrees with any idea or position you favor will do just fine as a representation of your actual ideas or positions. The most extreme example of anyone or anything associated with my ideology shows that inclusiveness is a vital part of our message.

www.lesjones.com

"That is one of those half truths - whole lies, Unk."

Err, no. If he had said only they were not appropriate for hunting, that's a whole different thing than calling them 'terrorist rifles.' And, from you own quote:

"As hunters, we don't need to be lumped into the group of people who terrorize the world with them"

What's that mean, exactly?

But hey, you fell for the WaPo's spin of the incident.

And, randy, the AR is one of the more popular platforms for varminting. Personally, I don't hunt so my knowledge is limited.

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SayUncle
Can't we all just get a long gun?

Sorry steve, i'm afraid you're just divorced from reality. he compared a group of people to terrorists. period.

I told people to stand down over the petzal incident.

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SayUncle
Can't we all just get a long gun?

"Like Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly , et al., haven't been doing this to Democrats and liberals and anybody else who disagrees with THEM for years?????"

And that has what to do with anything?

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SayUncle
Can't we all just get a long gun?

Sadly, it appears readers and participants at KnoxViews aren't cool enough play with assault rifles (excuse me, legal guns that look like assault rifles) and read gun blogs all day every day"

First we own too many guns to count (most very old and locked away in storage) but the ones we hunt with are normal shotguns, a couple of .30 cal rifles and two .22 handguns (years ago my grandfather taught me to shoot squirrels with his old single shot .22 and I just got hooked on it) but as for AK47s and the like, not one has ever been in this home or ever will. Every real hunter knows one or two shots is all you need and due to the crowding of hunting areas like Land Between The Lakes the last thing anyone wants is some fool spraying the woods with bullets!

Also I have never even seen a gun blog but on the other hand we never miss a gun show in Knoxville. Wonderful people (yep more than a few democrats!) and table after table of history on sale!

Be sure to avoid lumping all of us hunters into the same pile as the nut jobs who own the weapons in the article, we are nothing like them.

Is the person with the assault weapon Liberal or Conservanoid?
If they're a Liberal then it's ok for them to have the weapon. They'll probably use it in a responsible fashion. If they're a Right-Winger what difference does it make? They're a terrorist with or without the assault weapon.

Obviously their voting preferences cause more murders than their personal firearms ever will.

"If Bill Frist really cared about people's health, he'd get a job as a mechanic"

Hey....now we're talkin'

Heh. I'm surprised Uncle and the other gun bloggers haven't picked up on Stacey X's proposal to exempt any and all "made in Tennessee" firearms from any and all federal regulations. Except for automatic weapons and artillery that doesn't use black powder. If your "made in Tennessee" cannon uses black powder, though, you are A OK for deer hunting with it, I guess.

(link...)

Stacey's bill looks like a copy of a montana bill i've discussed some.

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SayUncle
Can't we all just get a long gun?