A worm by any other name

November 19, 2008

Lots of great dialog over at Sebastian’s place on the use of the term “Fudd.”

For the newbies out there,  “Fudd” is a pejorative term for a hunter who believes that the second amendment only applies to hunting guns.  The Jim Zumbo affair perhaps most clearly defines the issue.

I understand the sentiment about not alienating hunters.  I can understand how people can misunderstand the use of the word.  And I don’t want to miss an opportunity to educate people who support gun rights.  So, from now on, I’ll call hunters who don’t oppose gun bans exactly what they are: collaborators.

Collaborators are the worst enemies of gunnies.  There is a reason that the gun ban group “American Hunters and Shooters Association” poses as a false flag hunter’s organization.  When self-professed “hunters” agree that banning some guns is OK, it becomes the “reasonable” position due to the “truth-in-the middle” fallacy.  (If I say something is white, and you say it is black, the truth must be somewhere in the middle).  Collaborators give moral cover to an immoral act, and lend the mantle of “reasonableness” to those whose ultimate aim is ban everything.  And worst of all, they do it because they think that by betraying their fellow gun owners they can save their own skins.

I agree that we should reach out to hunters, educate them, and bring them into the fold of those of us fighting for gun rights.  But the moment that they are willing to throw another gun owner under the bus..be they .50 cal shooters, other hunters, guns-that-look-like-assault-weapons owners, or anyone else…they are the enemy and should be treated as such.

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