ZUMBOMANIA: David E. Petzal’s take on the Jim Zumbo fiasco
In case you just emerged from a coma and
have not heard, the shooting world is
agog over a blog posted by Jim Zumbo,
former contributing editor at Outdoor
Life, over the weekend of February 17.
In it, Jim stated that any semiauto
rifle with an AR or AK prefix was a
terrorist rifle, had no place in
hunting, and should be outlawed for that
purpose. Then, courtesy of the Internet
and all its blogs and chatrooms, the
roof fell in.
The speed with which Zumbomania spread, the number of comments it drew, and the rabid nature of same were a revelation. Overnight, this thing became as big as Janet Jackson’s clothing failure or—dare I say it?—Britney Spears’ shaved head. Jim Zumbo is now as employable as the Unabomber, and Sarah Brady will no doubt adopt his comments to her own gun-control purposes.