A Fu-er Zumbo is a person who in one mind keeps two contradictory lines of thought running in parallel. My dad is a good example: I bought an SKS carbine to plink with and also because at the time it was a "forbidden fruit". Boy was it forbidden!
My dad made me take it back to the store because he didn't think I should own a rifle "made only for street fighting and killing people." Also, he was afraid I would mount a hi-cap magazine to it and break the city's assault weapons ban. I looked up the law on the Internet and proved that it was legal, nevertheless, it went back.
During the discussion with Mom, Dad said he'd like to get an M1 rifle like he had in the ROK Army. Mom wanted to know why, and, get this, the M1 was his favorite rifle because it was very powerful and he could pump rounds downrange in a hurry. (I've never seen it, but a good M1 operator can throw out a storm of lead-all of it aimed). The SKS could also dump rounds out in a hurry. He also had a Ruger 10/22 and a 50 rd mag for it-a clear violation of the city AW ban. When he and Mom retired and moved, I found his evil black folding stock for it!
During a hunting trip, we and our hosts were talking about gun control. AFter he mentioned forcing me to return my valuable property (his house, his rules, now it's MY house, MY rules
) he said, "a gun can't kill anybody, somebody has to pick it up and pull the trigger." After the DC snipers were caught, he said "That's the problem with those rifles, you want to use them to kill people."
He knew nothing about AR-15 rifles, at the time I was busy building one of my own.
Talking with a person like this feels like this: :banghead: You get
, go
and wind up like
Then you think about how this person's views make it likely that they will lose their precious 30-06 Springfield to the gun banners, a rifle they used for a hunting career that spanned more than 30 years, all because of their ignorant, shortsighted, and contradictory position on gun issues, and you want to
to them, and all your friends in the EBR fraternity/sorority about what an idiot they are. That's my Fud, I mean, Zumbo experience. On another note, Dad told me that in Korean schools the teacher could beat students with a 3 ft bamboo cane for the slightest infraction, even doing an assignment wrong. I bet Zumbo would take that over what's happened any day.