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Yes, the Zumbo story is simple. His job was to write pieces that attracted and retained readers. Keeping him on would have cost an awful lot of cancelled subscriptions and lost advertising. He pretty much fired himself.

One positive note of this thread is that I think it has deepened our understanding of the 2nd Ammendment and codified our belief in it. Also it has separated the true believers in the right to keep and bear arms from the situational believers.

As a fellow outdoor writer of Zumbo's (although I don't know him), I posted this thought elsewhere, and will post it here as well:

What happened to Zumbo is an excellent example of why outdoor magazines have editors. What Zumbo said in his blog, I'd be willing to bet any amount of money, never would've made it into the pages of Outdoor Life. An editor would've emailed or called Zumbo and said something like: "Jim, you maybe want to rethink that stuff about AR's?"

His blog, as I understand it, was sponsored by (but neither moderated nor edited by) Outdoor Life. So he had a right to say what he said; readers had the same right to react as they did; and Outdoor Life had the right to shut down his blog and show him the door. It's one of those cases that never would've happened, back before the Net, because an editor never would've allowed it to happen.

Writers often grumble about what editors do to their copy. In this case, I have a feeling Zumbo wishes he'd had an editor look at what he wrote before it went up on the Net.

Jim Zumbo and the Dixie Chicks will make a great quartet! There are some people who just never get it.

Heck, Larry, I had a government job and I wish I'd had an editor about eight hundred times before I sent memos upstairs. The good news is that I quit when I was 53 and couldn't be happier. However, I think your observation about the Zumbo situation is the best I've read, including my own.

'Blog' is misspelled and mispronounced. Obviously, the word should be spelled and pronounced 'blab.'

I worked with Jim Zumbo on a mule deer hunting film. He is a good guy who has done a lot for gun owners and hunters, and for a lot of years. He really screwed up this one time, and has paid a terrible price. But I don't celebrate his departure and I think Outdoor Life will be the poorer for it.

Well, I slept on the words of Larry, jack and Bill and awakened on a sunny morning, looking out at thousands of whistlers, bluebills and mergansers in a long lead in the harbour ice 500m away, and came up with this:

All comment here taught me a lot about how the Constitution is perceived but more about the importance of this board to me as a place where I get information unvarnished without the heavy hand of. commercialism.