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Title: 'Hunters & Shooters' endorse Obama, group says he supports gun rights
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Raw Story
URL Source: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Hunte ... dorses_Obama_says_he_0416.html
Published: Apr 16, 2008
Author: Nick Juliano
Post Date: 2008-04-16 13:59:52 by robin
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Views: 1024
Comments: 63
The American Hunters & Shooters Association said Obama's views of the 2nd Amendment have been unfairly criticized and its endorsement comes as Obama's opponents are characterizing him as an "elitist" and condescending towards gun-owners. The group sets itself apart from the "more extreme" elements of the pro-gun lobby like the National Rifle Association and Gun Owners of America. Unlike them, AHSA favors some gun-control measures like background checks and required safety courses for concealed weapons permits. (The NRA has accused the group of being a front for the anti-gun lobby.) Ray Schoenke, the hunters association's president, cited Obama's support of an amendment to a Department of Homeland Security funding bill that would prevent the government from confiscating citizens' guns during an emergency. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Obama's opponent in the Democratic primary, and 16 other senators voted against the amendment. "She turned her back on America's gun owners," Schoenke said during a conference call organized by the Obama campaign Wednesday. Schoenke said the group reached out to the Obama campaign several weeks ago, before the recent controversy surrounding his comments about small-town voters. In announcing their support in the midst of the controversy, though, the group hoped to "set the record straight," about Obama's support of an individual's right to gun ownership, he said. "We understand that the gun issue is going to be very important in this election," said Bob Ricker, the group's executive director, citing an ongoing Supreme Court case regarding a handgun ban in Washington, DC. "Up until this time, the candidates haven't really been willing to talk about guns."
Less than a week after coming under fire for saying small-town Pennsylvanians "cling to" gun rights, Barack Obama picked up the endorsement of a pro-gun association that has backed Democratic candidates in the past.
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#3. To: robin (#0)
The AHSA is a bunch of sell-out bastards. To hell with them, they don't stand for the Second Amendment. Obama is a gun-grabbing socialist nigger and I don't trust him for one nano-second to protect our Second Amendment rights, his voting record is proof.
Do tell us what you really think. Way to win friends and influence people.
Bump to #4 Are the NRA and GOA "extreme" to you?
I can't say I follow gun issues closely enough to have an opinion one way or the other. I don't even know what GOA is. But I'd be interested to know whether the claim this organization makes about Obama's support of (and Hillary's opposition to) that amendment is correct.
Your self admitted ignorance explains your political naivete vis-à-vis Obama and the 2nd. Thank-you.
Someone like Bush who postures as pro-gun while supporting the shadow government's clandestine plans to detooth the population by removing guns is the sort of people I worry about, not Barack Obama. That would be as foolish as supporting this murderous warmonger who impoverishes, maims, kills, and dislocates people with his policies because he is against stem cell research and abortion. In this day when Chicken Hawks and neocons only give their postured stands and use positions to do worse things to us in other ways, I prefer supporting someone with integrity with whom I know any disagreement I have with them is an honest one, and who will honor the process if their views do not win in the give and take of governance as it works in our system of constitutional checks and balances.
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#5. To: X-15 (#3)
Obama is a gun-grabbing socialist nigger
#9. To: aristeides (#5)
#11. To: Jethro Tull (#9)
#12. To: aristeides (#11)
I can't say I follow gun issues closely enough to have an opinion one way or the other.
#20. To: Jethro Tull (#12)
"Your self admitted ignorance explains your political naiveté vis-à-vis Obama and the 2nd."
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