Pull: White House releases photo of Obama shooting

[Meezer]

The picture is said to be from last summer and features the president in traditional “mom jeans camo” skeet shooting garb.



White House releases photo of Obama skeet shooting at Camp David - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

 

[88GT]

It's about time.

 

[Scutter01]

Well, his skeet shooting convinces me that he's got our back.

 

[MikeDVB]

So what they're saying is... They know they're losing favor with those that are armed and want to save face any way possible?

 

[Stschil]

It's just a photo OP pic

Obama's newest game:

Find the errors. There are many

 

[MikeDVB]

First and foremost, don't you usually shoot in an upwards angle when shooting skeet? (I've never done it).

 

[Scutter01]

So what they're saying is... They know they're losing favor with those that are armed and want to save face any way possible?

Well, saying the equivalent of "Some of my best friends are black!" is sure to win over gun owners.

 

[Blackdog765]

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I think this is all part of his manipulation of the media and the general populous. With the mindset being - look what a passionate shooter Barry is, he would never take away your guns. And then he will slip in some legislation that nobody reads and it becomes law.

Or some variant of that idea.

But I believe he's purposefully releasing this image in an effort to convince people he's really FOR responsible ownership of guns.

*(I imagine after this photo was taken, he had that gun destroyed and he went and disinfected himself from any residual gunpowder...)*

 

[jbombelli]

If that pic is legit, I'm sure it took so long to come out because they had to come up with the time to stage it to back his claim.

 

[Scutter01]

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I think this is all part of his manipulation of the media and the general populous. With the mindset being - look what a passionate shooter Barry is, he would never take away your guns. And then he will slip in some legislation that nobody reads and it becomes law.

Or some variant of that idea.

But I believe he's purposefully releasing this image in an effort to convince people he's really FOR responsible ownership of guns.

*(I imagine after this photo was taken, he had that gun destroyed and he went and disinfected himself from any residual gunpowder...)*

Like most anti's (and, frankly, far too many pro-gun owners), he thinks that gun ownership is about "sporting purposes" and as long as you have a gun you can hunt with or as long as you can have two shells loaded at a time to shoot skeet, then it's all good. He has no understanding of the real reasons behind the Second Amendment and why it's so important.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Obama replied to a question from the magazine about whether he had ever shot a gun before “[Y]es, in fact, up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time.”

"All the time"?

Wow...I'll bet he's pretty good then.

 

[Switch4169]

My opinion, a person that enjoys a good day of skeet shooting, doesn't want to ban the the gun in his hand! I'm calling photo shop on this pic!!!

 

[gunworks321]

Also remember that back when he was a lowly Senator, he said that he viewed the Constitution as a document of negative rights stating what the government could not do. It did not state what a government could do for (against) you. This from a Constitutional professor from Chicago

 

[Llamaguy]

I also thought it was weird that he was shooting level. :confused: And I am very tired of this sportsman/hunter bull****. I want to defend the AR as a legitimate hunting rifle but at the same time I feel that this is undermining the fact that the 2nd Amendment has nothing to do with hunting.

 

[TTravis]

 

[JetGirl]

Uh huh.

Hmmmm....That was the photo that appeared on Yahoo, which also said: "The White House photo released Saturday is dated Aug. 4, 2012, and shows Obama shooting at clay targets on the range at Camp David."

However... Reuters said; "(Reuters) - President Barack Obama celebrated his 51st birthday on Saturday with a round of golf, then helicoptered to the Camp David presidential retreat for a quiet evening off the campaign trail."
Obama spends his 51st birthday on the golf course | Reuters

Curious.

 

[pitbulld45]

I say let him skeet shoot on tv for us. I bet you he cant hit 5 out of 100.

 

[pitbulld45]

I bet he couldnt even shoot a shot gun 100 times without stopping.

 

[Slapstick]

 

[atvdave]

I'm not that knowledgeable about shotguns but.... whats the smoke coming out from the side of the barrel?