Agreed. An anecdote to describe how I feel about all this:

In another life, listed as missing for a week on assignment and assumed (correctly) probably in a Cuban jail, my best friend called my wife and said, "If King doesn't come back I want his diving gear." It was so patently boorish it was taken for what it was: Don't worry, King will show up, he always does.

What offended some members was a pecuniary interest in MM's guns at this time.