EDITORIAL - Doug Thompson Dumps On Gun Owners (ala Zumbo)

[gyp_c2]

yup...

No prob.... but, that is why it is so damn important for the OP to ALWAYS post the complete article, and not just a link to an article (or blog).

...absolutely...spot-on...

 

[cbsbyte]

The sad thing is that some people who reguarly post on this board have used Doug Thompson as a source for their arguments.

 

[Deavis]

I'm betting he felt giddy and pleased with himself after the first few comments (maybe he wrote those himself) and then it goes downhill from there. Good logical arguments for guns followed by whiney emotion from anti-NRA/gun people. the "NRA preaches hate," is my favorite line.

 

[Thin Black Line]

This guy is neither an NRA supporter or a gun rights advocate. He is typical of the Brady shills who want to keep the Zumbo topic a hot-button issue in hopes of splitting hunters and shooters into two separate camps. A game that far too many shooters are playing into by writing guys like this with ill-advised comments that are then used to further wedge the two groups apart.

And this worked quite well pre-94 even without the internet.

Also, someone doesn't have to be a Brady shill to be anti-hicap-semiauto.
Unfortunately, there are plenty of elitist RINOs who feel there's no need for
the commoners to have them and that such legislation won't affect their over
unders and weatherbys.

The way to educate them is to let them know their buddies at the country
club will NOT get re-elected without us. They need to pay homage as much
at Knob Creek as they do at the Megachurch of the moment. Sure, we know
they'll really truly believe about as much at both.

That's the way the power game works.

 

[Justin]

He's deleted the posts claiming that he received a message from the NRA, and claimed that they were posts made by people (not him) under his name.

I'd be willing to pay real money to take a peak at the IP log he's got...

 

[Duncan223]

Here is an interesting response from Doug:

"Methinks he protest too loudly"

#229 Doug Thompson Says:
February 27th, 2007 at 10:40 pm

What I find interesting is that none of those who want my ass on a pole now seem to remember what I wrote in 1994 opposing the efforts to ban assault weapons or my efforts in the 90s working with the American Shooting Sports Council in support of the Second Amendment.

Like the case of Jim Zumbo, it only takes one difference of opinion to create an grossly inaccurate perception that fails to recognize an overall body of work.

That is my main complaint with the gun lobby and many other special interest lobbies. Those who lobby in such a gung-ho fashion for unfettered support of the Second Amendment seem to forget the First Amendment — the one that says something about freedom of speech. Jim should have the freedom to express an opinion without fear of being driven from the business.

I guess it is telling that the Capitol Hill Blue editor’s email account has received more than 1500 emails demanding that I be fired. Don’t these folks realize I own the place?

A number of the comments to the column have been reasoned and well written but they are drowned out by the din of hyperbole, double negatives and bad grammar. It is also interesting that those who scream the loudest claim, incorrectly, that Zumbo and I support a ban on assault weapons. We don’t and nothing we wrote suggests that we do.

Doesn’t speak well for some of those who own assault weapons.

There’s been enough venting, repetition, hyperbole and insults posted here. Discussion is closed. If you want to comment further, join the thread on ReaderRant

–Doug

 

[Justin]

Oddly enough, a cursory Google search of his name, website, and various terms like "assault weapon" doesn't turn up anything along the lines of an essay taking down the 1994 ban.

Methinks that Doug has a problem with understanding that teh intartubes have a long memory.

 

[Robert Hairless]

I'll echo Bartholomew Roberts' plea for more temperate statements and behaviors. We especially need to stop cannibalizing each other and our allies.

It's also not a mark of swift thinking to fire off threats or demands for the firing of a person who so obviously owns the place.

We are our own worst enemy. It's not smart and it needn't be.

 

[plexreticle]

The NRA has nothing to do with me Zumbo bashing. Zumbo is the one who ran his mouth.

I suspect Zumbo would cry bloody murder if someone bad mouthed hunting rifles because they do not represent the sprit of the 2nd amendment as well as an AR or AK does. His comments were at least outlandish and off target.

Thompson preaches tolerance of Zumbo’s comment via the 1st amendment but has shown none for whoever disagrees. He has accused people like me of being puppets of the NRA as if we would find Zumbo’s comments acceptable if the NRA does.

I agree that there needs to be some house cleaning. We have people in the press that claim to represent gun owners and hunter yet bad mouth the NRA and the very people that put food on their plate.