As the gun-control conversation continues to heat up, Americans are finding out that on the subject of firearms President Obama is no novice. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. Instead, what we’re learning is that Barry is a gun-toting, skeet-shooting marksman whose affection for rifles and shotguns may only be exceeded by his love for himself.
It didn’t get a lot of press, but in 2010, when the Texas Christian University rifle team visited the White House for a celebration of all NCAA sports champions, Barack Obama told TCU student, Simone Ridford, that he practices shooting rifles with the Secret Service. No shock there! Barack Obama being a proficient rifleman isn’t entirely impossible; after all, didn’t he say that his Kenyan father served in World War II?
The most recent firearm confession came when the President admitted that when he, Michelle and the girls spent all of 27 out of 1,460 days at Camp David, he didn’t just hold G8 Summits, he also spent a lot of time holding a shotgun and shattering clay pigeons. And not just sometimes, but “all the time.”
Rugged outdoorsman Obama’s fondness for skeet makes one wonder whether, when he’s shooting, he wears his elastic-waist “mom” jeans for ease of overhand movement and his spiffy bicycle helmet to protect himself from being injured by all those dead targets raining down on his thick skull.
The President did not divulge whether his shotgun of choice is semi-automatic, under/over, or pump. However, what we do know for certain is that whether it’s a 12-, 20- or 28-gauge, if Bad Golfer.com’s Bad Golfer of the Decade shoots like he plays golf, Dick Cheney’s former quail hunting partner, Harry Whittington, had better steer clear of Camp David’s skeet range lest the worst befall him a second time.
Besides skeet shooting and target practice, President Obama also has a keen interest in gun technology. Last February, when 100 science geeks attended the second annual science fair at the White House, Barack “Whoa…ahhaho” Obama enthusiastically assisted 14-year-old Joey Hudy in firing his Extreme Marshmallow Gun in the State Dining Room of the White House.
Prior to the marshmallow incident, one step away from becoming the poster boy for the NRA, the President was photographed running around the perimeter of a swimming pool with a water gun. And not just any gun; no wimpy water pistol for this guy, oh no. To be exact, the man who has famously ‘soaked’ America was toting an orange and white assault-style Super Soaker which, for the sake of the children, should also be banned along with violent video games, Lethal Weapon movies, and wild eyed white guys with either no hair, orange hair, or just plain peculiar hair.
So far, based on the level of enthusiasm he displayed, big kid Barack seems to get the most kick out of shooting marshmallows and spraying water. Thank God, thus far Obama has avoided the type of Hello Kitty bubble gun that got a Pennsylvania five-year-old suspended, psychologically evaluated, and placed at the center of a “terrorist threat” controversy for warning that she had plans to blast a playmate with bubbles.
In the end, if you add up the rifle practice, skeet-shooting, marshmallow gun, and Super Soaker with Obama’s Scripture-quoting at every opportunity, that incendiary “bitter clinger… guns and religion” comment takes on a whole new meaning.
America will never know for sure if closet “bitter clinger” Obama was including himself or not when he made that incendiary comment, but what we now know is that Barack Obama does have “a profound respect for the traditions of hunting that trace back in this country for generations.”
Sadly, what Barack Obama doesn’t have is a “profound respect” for is the Second Amendment of the Constitution, which mentions neither hunting nor skeet shooting, but clearly cites “a well regulated militia…the security of a free state [and] the right of the people to keep and bear arms.”
In the end, despite all the recent revelations about Barack Obama’s familiarity with guns, the President’s most impressive skill does not include rifles, shotguns, marshmallows, or Super Soakers. The thing that Obama is the most expert at and does the most damage with is the finger gun he uses when he shoots his leftist barbs at political adversaries and issues edicts with a goal to “fundamentally transform” America.
