To all of those out there who support Obama and like his ideas on Health care, gay marriage, or whatever, this gun fight is not helping you politically, or any other way.
I believe you may be correct
nate45
I have talked to three people in which I am very close with that are Obama supporters. They are not happy!
Over the years we have had many very in-depth political conversations starting when Obama was first campaigning for his first term.
There are things that all these three people have in common:
1) They love to shoot.
2)Have their CCP.
3)Own firearms/mags/clips that will become illegal. One varmint hunts exclusively with a Bushmaster.
4)They believe strongly in the 2nd Amendment and don't believe it should be trampled on in any way.
5)All three of them know that these new proposed EO's will not address the problem at hand and feel Obama is taking the easy route out on the whole issue by catering to the anti-gun politico supporters of his party instead of coming up with ways that will really address the issue that would be effective.
6)They are not happy with the cheap Obama tactics in using kids to pull at the heartstrings of the American public to try and pass these EO's....
....and ...
...7)
Although they knew Obama was anti-gun from the onset, they all felt that Obama had too much on his plate to ever have time to do what he's trying to now do.
In short, they all three agree with a lot of the other political views Obama has but do not agree in any way with Obama's views on guns and are strongly against what he's doing now but they rolled the dice that Obama would never do what he's doing now.
They lost!
Too, today, they realize that by voting for Obama, they are partially responsible for what is going on now in the gun arena, are ashamed for voting for him and two of them have apologized to me personally for getting me into this mess by voting the way they did and went further to donate generously to the NRA and wrote our Senators/Congressmen to help in the fight against these proposed EO's.
FWIW, I do believe that these three will never again gamble with casting their vote on a politician regardless of party affiliation when said politician has a background of not believing in our Constitution as it's written.