Extraordinary insight as usual Shaman.
Many thanks. Now, having said all that, let me remind you what I wrote at the time of the Zumbo incident. . .
. . . no, I mean the other thing I wrote, silly. Besides, I was highly intoxicated at the time. If you remember, I'd burned my hand and had no Ibuprofen at camp, and I'd had to dunk the hand in ice water and kill the pain with scotch. Besides, you all seemed to have fun at the time reading it.
What I was referring to was that was that although I might abhor black rifles in the woods every bit as much as Zumbo, but that I would defend to the death a man's right to keep and bear them. That's true about rifles with pink stocks chambered in 270 Winchester, and in keeping with what I wrote at the time, you can show up at deer camp with one, but I would prefer that you hunt on the next ridge over.
