Recent Letter to Ted Nugent from Jim Zumbo
Just keepin ya posted...
quote:Ted, I'm still at the sportsmen's show, it ends tomorrow, and am able to write a little in my booth. Am giving the absolutist message in my seminars -- people are seeing the light. But lemme tell you what you already know. A LOT of people said I was right all along and I shouldn't have apologized. That's the danger, that's the problem. A WHOLE lot of education needs to go on. When these people tell me that, I give them my new hard core spiel about HR1022 and how it will take away their favorite hunting guns. They say, NO poop, and I've won a convert. How sweet it is.
Funny thing, my best customer all week is a guy who went to my seminar. Bought a bunch of books and he owns an AR-15! Good fun things are happening.
I'm doing my best setting up a schedule of what I need to do to make it right with the blackgun folks. My BloodBrothers. I DO want to do what's right.
The big current effort is my letter to the Second Amendment Foundation, with a copy to Wayne LaPierre. I'll forward the letter to you tomorrow.
I'm working on my new absolutist piece for TX F&G now. Jim
Just passin' along the news and update from upgrade central...
quote:Ted, I'm still at the sportsmen's show, it ends tomorrow, and am able to write a little in my booth. Am giving the absolutist message in my seminars -- people are seeing the light. But lemme tell you what you already know. A LOT of people said I was right all along and I shouldn't have apologized. That's the danger, that's the problem. A WHOLE lot of education needs to go on. When these people tell me that, I give them my new hard core spiel about HR1022 and how it will take away their favorite hunting guns. They say, NO poop, and I've won a convert. How sweet it is.
Funny thing, my best customer all week is a guy who went to my seminar. Bought a bunch of books and he owns an AR-15! Good fun things are happening.
I'm doing my best setting up a schedule of what I need to do to make it right with the blackgun folks. My BloodBrothers. I DO want to do what's right.
The big current effort is my letter to the Second Amendment Foundation, with a copy to Wayne LaPierre. I'll forward the letter to you tomorrow.
I'm working on my new absolutist piece for TX F&G now. Jim
Just passin' along the news and update from upgrade central...
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I've said and written about this in my own Blog. Our greatest enemy isn't the gun-banners, it is gun-owners who don't understand the 2nd and are willing to allow gun control when it doesn't affect them directly.
The Greatest Threat We Face is Ourselves: http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/News-Politics/Commentary/Blog~139635.aspx0 -
All things said I think I'd rather have him with us than against us.
I was just as pissed as anyone else about what he said. But, on the other hand, he can make progress by spreading the word to all his Fudd buddies that with HR1022, they stand to loose too!
You'r not quite there yet Mr. Zimbo, but keep up the good work.
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It is very true! The biggest threat we face is from what I call "The-Fine-Young-Cannibals." Those who purport themselves to be gun owners, hunters, or gun enthusiasts of one kind or another that are so bent on some self-serving masturbation of the destruction of Jim Zumbo, that they cannot see the forest for the trees right now and they refuse to take part in the very positive turn around that is being orchestrated by the true 2nd amendment supporters along with Ted Nugent in re-educating and re-focusing Mr. Zumbo on this excellent mission for the greater good of all that would never have happened had he not stumbled and brought to light this evidence of a mindset that exists out there in a far bigger proportion than anyone had ever thought. 0 -
Ya know Mr Nimrod, That second sentance you wrote has to be the longest sentance ever written on GB. If spoke real fast, it would sound just like Ted himself.
Ted, is that you?[;)]
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Pitiful, just pitiful. The man had a good job which didn't require work and he lost it. Now he is willing to do whatever it takes to get it back. I almost hope he finds another way to make a living without working. Pitiful. I hate to see anybody grovel. Just pitiful. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by guns-n-painthorses
Ya know Mr Nimrod, That second sentance you wrote has to be the longest sentance ever written on GB. If spoke real fast, it would sound just like Ted himself.
Ted, is that you?[;)]
No sir, just a fellow Hunter, Gun owner from Western Massachusetts and a big fan of the NUGE...
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More "letters from the front line."
quote:February 28, 2007
Mr. Alan Gottlieb, Chairman
Citizens Committee for the
Right to Keep and Bear Arms
12500 N.E. Tenth Place
Bellevue, WA 98005
Dear Alan:
They say that hindsight is always 20-20. In my case, hindsight has been a hard teacher, like the father teaching the son a lesson about life in the wood shed.
I was wrong when I recently suggested that wildlife agencies should ban semiautomatic firearms I erroneously called "assault rifles" for hunting. I insulted legions of my fellow gun owners in the process by calling them "terrorist rifles." I can never apologize enough for having worn blinders when I should have been wearing bifocals.
But unlike those who would destroy the Second Amendment right to own a firearm - any firearm - I have learned from my embarrassing mistake. My error should not be used, as it has been in recent days by our common enemies, in an effort to dangerously erode our right to keep and bear arms.
I would hope instead to use this spotlight to address my hunting fraternity, many of whom shared my erroneous position. I am a hunter and like many others I had the wrong picture in mind. I associated these firearms with military action, and saw not hunting as I have known it, not the killing of a varmint, but the elimination of the entire colony. Nothing could be further from the truth, but I know from whence it comes. This ridiculous image, formed in the blink of an eye, exerts and unconscious effect on all decisions that follow. In seeking to protect our hunting rights by guarding how we are seen in the public eye, I lost sight of the larger picture; missed the forest for the trees.
My own lack of experience was no excuse for ignoring the fact that millions of Americans - people who would share a campfire or the shelter of their tent, and who have hurt nobody - own, hunt with and competitively shoot or collect the kinds of firearms I so easily dismissed.
I recently took a "crash course" on these firearms with Ted Nugent, to learn more about them and to educate myself. In the process, I learned about the very real threat that faces all American gun owners.
I've studied up on legislation now in Congress that would renew and dangerously expand a ban on many types of firearms. The bill, HR 1022 sponsored by New York Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, is written so broadly that it would outlaw numerous firearms and accessories, including a folding stock for a Ruger rifle. I understand that some of the language could ultimately take away my timeworn and cherished hunting rifles and shotguns as well as those of all American hunters.
The extremist supporters of HR 1022 don't want to stop criminals. They want to invent new ones out of people like you and me with the simple stroke of a pen. They will do anything they can to make it impossible for more and more American citizens to legally own any firearm.
Realizing that what I wrote catered to this insidious attack on fellow gun owners has, one might say, "awakened a sleeping giant within me, and filled him with a terrible resolve."
I made a mistake. But those who would use my remarks to further their despicable political agenda have made a bigger one. I hope to become their worst nightmare. I admit I was wrong. They insist they are right.
Enclosed, you will find a check that is intended to be used to fight and defeat HR 1022. I also hope it inspires other gun owners to "do as I do, not as I say."
I'm putting my money where my mouth should have been, and where my heart and soul have always been. I know the Second Amendment isn't about hunting and never has been. My blunder was in thinking that by working to protect precious hunting rights I was doing enough. I promise it will never happen again.
I don't know what lies over the horizon for me. I am not ready for the rocking chair.
I'm going to devote every ounce of my energy to this battle. I will remind my fellow hunters that we are first, gun owners. Whether we like it or not, our former apathy and prejudices may place that which we love, hunting, in jeopardy. I will educate fellow outdoorsmen who mistakenly think like I talked, 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 was wrong, and I'm going to make it right.
Sincerely,
Jim Zumbo
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Again, it sounds very sincere. How many people do you know who would donate money to a cause they don't support? Not many, I'm betting. 0 -
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You do realize that this isn't the first time that Dumbo has suffered "foot in mouth" desease on this topic, don't you?
Back when every gun shop in the country had "in the grease" SKS's for $79.95, Ol Dumbo came out with a similar rant aganst them.
The boy is just to dumb to learn from his past mistakes.0 -
what is this, the head that was chopped off is still talking and wants to be put back on the body? I say leave it in the basket. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by buschmaster
what is this, the head that was chopped off is still talking and wants to be put back on the body? I say leave it in the basket.
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Gentlemen: It appears that Jim has been converted. I personally cannot ask for more from him. If he has moved from "a negative force who had the eye of the public," to an activist, you (we) have succeeded beyond our wildest dreams. Just my opinion.
Realizing that what I wrote catered to this insidious attack on fellow gun owners has, one might say, "awakened a sleeping giant within me, and filled him with a terrible resolve."
I made a mistake. But those who would use my remarks to further their despicable political agenda have made a bigger one. I hope to become their worst nightmare. I admit I was wrong. They insist they are right.
Enclosed, you will find a check that is intended to be used to fight and defeat HR 1022. I also hope it inspires other gun owners to "do as I do, not as I say."0 -
Go TED , THE Motor City Mad MAN 0 -
Zumbo will need to continue this full court press for a while before I'm ready to welcome him back into the fold. BUT, he is off to a very good start. He could have drifted off into retirement but has chosen the much more difficult path. 0 -
I hope he has truly seen the light and had a change of heart...and that he's not just doing this in an attempt to salvage his reputation. 0 -
I don't believe it. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by JamesRK
Pitiful, just pitiful. The man had a good job which didn't require work and he lost it. Now he is willing to do whatever it takes to get it back. I almost hope he finds another way to make a living without working. Pitiful. I hate to see anybody grovel. Just pitiful.
He's gotta have money coming out the yin-yang. I don't think he wants his job back. I think he wants a role in the lime-lite. And he's got it, paycheck or no paycheck.0 -
Do you give a rabid dog "another chance"??
Hippocrit.
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quote:Originally posted by Doug Wilson
Do you give a rabid dog "another chance"??
Hippocrit.
D.
I might consider giving him a second chance when I see him in a loincloth on stage with Ted shakin his azz to Stranglehold or Great White Buffalo.0 -
I thought prostitution was illegal in this country? It appears Dumbo will do or say anything to keep his money coming in.
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Its amazing that some people would rather reveal in another mans destruction rather than listen to what he has to say.....
It's real simple guys, we are in the minority. Last I heard, about 70% of Americans favor an assault weapons ban. We are not only in the minority, we are outnumbered 2-1.
We NEED guys like Zumbo. This guy was the personification of "Fudd". His opinion matters to thousands of hunters. We NEED those votes and the influence that comes with them.
We've pleaded with hunters for years to understand that selling us out will only result in their guns being taken as well. Here is a guy that not only says that he understands that but now wants to play a more active role in our cause. He is absolutely right when he says he could become the antis worst nightmare. Here is a man that could, to some extent, bridge the divide between hunters and shooters.
We are the minority, get used to it. Our only defense lies in being a LOUD, UNITED, minority.
I'm not saying we should forget what he said. I WANT people to remember. I want us to be able to look at those statements and realize the ignorance that we deal with daily.
At the same time, I want to look back on this whole affair as a positive. I want to be able to say we transformed a Fudd into a Patriot, not through fear but through the power of our ideas.0 -
Whether Zumbo is sincere isn't really the main concern for me. Rather, I'm concerned about the huge error in judgment he made in writing what he did in the first place. I have to wonder whether he reflects on what he says or simply shoots from the lip without analyzing his own work until too late.[?] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by HighVolumeOfFire
Its amazing that some people would rather reveal in another mans destruction rather than listen to what he has to say.....
It's real simple guys, we are in the minority. Last I heard, about 70% of Americans favor an assault weapons ban. We are not only in the minority, we are outnumbered 2-1.
We NEED guys like Zumbo. This guy was the personification of "Fudd". His opinion matters to thousands of hunters. We NEED those votes and the influence that comes with them.
We've pleaded with hunters for years to understand that selling us out will only result in their guns being taken as well. Here is a guy that not only says that he understands that but now wants to play a more active role in our cause. He is absolutely right when he says he could become the antis worst nightmare. Here is a man that could, to some extent, bridge the divide between hunters and shooters.
We are the minority, get used to it. Our only defense lies in being a LOUD, UNITED, minority.
I'm not saying we should forget what he said. I WANT people to remember. I want us to be able to look at those statements and realize the ignorance that we deal with daily.
At the same time, I want to look back on this whole affair as a positive. I want to be able to say we transformed a Fudd into a Patriot, not through fear but through the power of our ideas.
Amen. X-Ring. +1. ^5.0 -
When I see him on stage in a loin cloth with Ted Nugent shakin his azz to Cat Scratch Fever and hold a black evil gun over his head while screaming "from my cold dead hands" I will then consider him worthy of respect. 0 -
That first letter did little to impress me, as most of the other ones have too. The Second letter however is a great deal better so one of two things happned. 1. he got better at writing, or 2. he is starting to see the light. There is only one way to tell and that is time. If he is TRUELY sorry it will show over time. He will NEVER hold the status he once did, and that is just a fact.
Like others have said he could be the man to unite the hunters "fudds" and the true 2A gun owners. Time will tell.
It is ok to forgive if a change happens, but it is NEVER ok to forget.0 -
Like I said before, too little, too late. The damage is done![V] 0 -
I generally agree about the severe damage the man has already done, what he clearly doesn't/didn't understand about the 2nd Amendment, and his "unlikely" conversion, but Saul didn't do too bad a job as Paul, maybe this guy could be useful.
He bears very close watching under the old Reagan doctrine of "Trust, but verify". It won't take long to reveal whether he has had a change of heart, or just a change of finances and status.
Either way, he can be made to serve as a case in point.0 -
I'm no judge, but I'll be watching what Zumbo has to say in the future.A man will hunt with what ever he can get his hands on, once the bug has bitten him. If the man chooses a gun thats a legal weapon, whos to say what he should of hunted with. 0
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