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Barack Obama: 'I go shooting all the time'
telegraph.co.uk ^ | 27 Jan 2013 | By Jon Swaine, Washington

Posted on 01/28/2013 3:43:10 AM PST by dennisw

President Barack Obama has claimed that he goes shooting "all the time", while attempting to reassure American gun-owners that he respects their rights to use firearms.

Amid conservative anger over Mr Obama's proposals to ban assault weapons as part of a drastic overhaul of US gun control laws, the president said that he was a keen clay-pigeon shooter.

Asked in a magazine interview whether he had ever fired a gun, Mr Obama said he did so with guests at the president's rural retreat.

"Up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time," he said. "And I have a profound respect for the traditions of hunting that trace back in this country for generations.

"And I think those who dismiss that out of hand make a big mistake".

Mr Obama's plans for tighter firearms regulations were drawn up by Joe Biden, his vice-president, following the massacre of 26 people, including 20 young pupils at a primary school in Connecticut last month.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: guncontrol; secondamendment; serialliar
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1 posted on 01/28/2013 3:43:19 AM PST by dennisw
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To: dennisw

his mouth, yes.


2 posted on 01/28/2013 3:46:23 AM PST by AbolishCSEU (Percentage of Income in CS is inversely proportionate to Mother's parenting of children)
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To: dennisw

what do either have to do with the 2nd Amendment?


3 posted on 01/28/2013 3:47:54 AM PST by stylin19a
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To: dennisw

...do use all a favor and take lessons from Al Gore

4 posted on 01/28/2013 3:48:45 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: dennisw

I've seen this movie.

5 posted on 01/28/2013 3:50:04 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: dennisw

I was kind of womdering how you shoot skeet with a blowgun.


6 posted on 01/28/2013 3:53:22 AM PST by MestaMachine (Sometimes the smartest man in the room is standing in the midst of imbeciles.)
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And I was wondering too.


7 posted on 01/28/2013 3:54:43 AM PST by MestaMachine (Sometimes the smartest man in the room is standing in the midst of imbeciles.)
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To: dennisw

He HATES Camp David.
He’s lying.
Again.

So—what’s new?


8 posted on 01/28/2013 3:54:43 AM PST by Flintlock (H)
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To: dennisw

Tradition of hunting?

More liberal spin. The second amendment has nothing to do with hunting.


9 posted on 01/28/2013 3:59:56 AM PST by Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh (I cling to guns and religion.)
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To: dennisw

There is a rap song that refers to “skeet shooting” as one of the more disgusting activities of urban life ... it is not honorable.


10 posted on 01/28/2013 4:04:45 AM PST by Ken522
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To: dennisw

Bizarre the way they’ve suddenly attached themselves to the holiness of “hunting.” There must be more going on than meets the eye.


11 posted on 01/28/2013 4:07:25 AM PST by PaleoBob
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To: dennisw

Barak Hussein Obama - where every lie is bigger than the last one.


12 posted on 01/28/2013 4:13:39 AM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: dennisw
John Kerry once claimed he was an avid deer hunter too. In his own words, Kerry said that the tactic he uses when he deer hunts is to

"...crawl around on my stomach, I track and move and decoy and play games and try to outsmart them. You know, you kind of play the wind."

They're both pathological liars.....

13 posted on 01/28/2013 4:27:43 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Jab her with a harpoon or just throw her from the train......)
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To: Hot Tabasco

He took a campaign duck hunting trip with out a duck stamp

He didn’t know there was a Federal license to hunt ducks


14 posted on 01/28/2013 4:33:02 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....The fairest Deduction to be reduced is the Standard Deduction)
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To: dennisw

If he ever went skeet shooting, there would be pictures by now. I’m sure we’ll get pictures shortly. As soon as the weather’s nice up at Camp David, there will be a skeet shoot...


15 posted on 01/28/2013 4:35:32 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: dennisw

——— we do skeet shooting all the time-——

If that is what he said, the headline is wrong. One goes skeet shooting not do skeet shooting. They corrected his grammer.

We did not hear the words but one wonders if he said skeet shoo -ting in the manner of those who say hun-ting


16 posted on 01/28/2013 4:46:16 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....The fairest Deduction to be reduced is the Standard Deduction)
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To: Hot Tabasco

John Kerry like to look for and hunt wounded teen aged POW’s, and shoot them, when they cannot shoot back.

An admitted war criminal.


17 posted on 01/28/2013 4:49:54 AM PST by Venturer
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To: bert

Look up skeet shooting in Urban Dictionary,that’s what he’s talking about.


18 posted on 01/28/2013 5:00:56 AM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: PaleoBob
Bizarre the way they’ve suddenly attached themselves to the holiness of “hunting.”

There's nothing new about that. Just the old "divide and conquer" ploy. There are far more avid hunters in this country than there are dedicated 2nd Amendment supporters. Assure the hunters that their favorite pastime is safe and they'll go along with new restrictions.

19 posted on 01/28/2013 5:06:35 AM PST by Malone LaVeigh
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To: dennisw

crap shooting maybe, but nothing with a firearm.


20 posted on 01/28/2013 5:09:46 AM PST by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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