First, your editors must not have anything much on their minds if they are really focused on such trivia. Are they normally such a bunch of anal thumb-suckers easily made anxious by any flake complaint?
Two, you are a known recidivist, having used the loony term several times before. Why. once in the same 2000 article on the joys of recoil, you called yourself and a woman guide -- gasp! -- "rifle lonnies" w/o any flap. Why are they making a federal case out of it now? Office politics at work? Have they been recentl;y infested by lawyers?
Three, this site is a poor sounding board for determining the margins of good taste or constructive discourse. The guys know rifles but, judging by the constant gratuitous, use of "sucks" and "sluts", the sensitivity scale here is off kilter. It is kind of like asking NASCAR drivers for tips on alternative fuels.
