Reply #1: He is correct.

[murielm99]

This issue trips us up continually.

Gun ownership needs to be a local issue. People who live in rural states or rural areas own guns. They hunt and protect their property from pests. They don't do those things with handguns.

If I lived in town, I could not go outside and shoot off a gun because a coon was getting into my garbage. I would be arrested if I took potshots at an obviously sick skunk that was wandering around in the daylight.

When my husband and I hunt, we supplement our food budget with pheasant or the occasional deer. Many people who live in the country do that. We garden, too. I wish we had time to fish.

I think Obama addressed this issue exactly the way it should be addressed. Good for him.