The Furor in the Flyover States May Be Registering with Obama Administration

[Cujo0920]

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-says-rur...153857622.html

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged gun control advocates to listen to views of rural Americans who use guns for hunting and said bridging a cultural divide in attitudes to gun ownership will be critical to his administration's push to curb gun violence.

"If you grew up and your dad gave you a hunting rifle when you were 10, and you went out and spent the day with him and your uncles, and that became part of your family's traditions, you can see why you'd be pretty protective of that," Obama said in an interview with The New Republic magazine published on Sunday on its website.

Obama made gun control a top priority for his second term after 20 children and six adults were killed in December by a gunman at a school in Newtown, Connecticut.

Obama spoke with The New Republic on January 16, the same day he announced he would put the full weight of his office behind urging Congress to approve an assault weapons ban and background checks for all gun buyers.
"Part of being able to move this forward is understanding the reality of guns in urban areas are very different from the realities of guns in rural areas," Obama said.

"So it's trying to bridge those gaps that I think is going to be part of the biggest task over the next several months. And that means that advocates of gun control have to do a little more listening than they do sometimes," he said.

[Monky]

Your title makes no sense.. Someone will probably repost this.

[HBARleatherneck]

http://www.ar-15.co/threads/85079-Ob...to-Listen-More

this thread is basically a repost. same subject matter.

[Great-Kazoo]

Your title makes no sense.. Someone will probably repost this.

MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL. Luv all our brothers & sisters, some more than others.

[def90]

He's only trying to soften up the opposition. Make you think that he understands and then when you stop writing the letters the hammer comes down.

[BPTactical]

He's only trying to soften up the opposition. Make you think that he understands and then when you stop writing the letters the hammer comes down.

Yup, we have to keep the hammer down.
And if needed, get a bigger hammer

[Bailey Guns]

Nothing is registering with the Obama administration. According to the OP they still think the 2A is about hunting.

[wARmachine15]

What's this idiot saying? His dad took him gazelle hunting in Kenya so he relates to dads taking sons pheasant hunting in Iowa?

[TEAMRICO]

What's this idiot saying? His dad took him gazelle hunting in Kenya so he relates to dads taking sons pheasant hunting in Iowa?

Damn it man, the 2A has nothing to do with sticks.

[jason303]

I take this as a very encouraging move. He's having to pitch old propaganda that's not as widely accepted as it once was. The message that the second amendment has nothing to do with hunting is reaching the low information population more and more. Also, playing dictator tends to wake people up a bit.