The left has, for the past few years, been doing everything they can to calm down gun owners trying to make them believe they are safe under their governing control. Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have stated that they are not going for the guns and that they respect the second amendment. Here is the latest statement from Obama on the CBS web site:

“Now, the NRA sometimes... their general attitude is look, we don’t want anything, and if you even breathe the word ‘gun control’ or ‘gun safety,’ then you must want to take away everybody’s guns. Well, that’s just not true,” he said adding that illegal guns are his concern, not those used for sportsmanship.

During Hillary Clinton's campaign, she came forward with her "hunting experience" and if you do a search for more pro-gun comments from liberals, you will find that most comments related to guns and the second amendment are about hunting and sports shooting. Supporting owning a gun for self defense is avoided.
 
The real truth is that they don't support the second amendment at all. They don't support the personal God given responsibility to protect yourself. This individual and personal responsibility is something they want to regulate and be handled by the government and law enforcement. This is a part of so many other socialistic measurements where the state becomes the parents and we the people become the teenage children who cannot be trusted to be home alone.
 
The more I study the secular-progressive movement in the US and especially gun control, I see more and more the resemblance to European gun control. I have some breaking news for those hunters and sports shooters who feel safe under the what I call... "Obama's Guns for Sportsmanship Protection Act.

Here is a bullet list of how European shooters and hunters experience gun control. And I KNOW what I am talking about as I lived all of my life in Europe.
 
* Sports shooting and hunting organization are heavily governed and regulated by government agencies.
 
* Shooters and hunters are required a mandatory membership and affiliation in local and national organizations who administer shooting diciplines and hunting regulations.
 
* All guns have to be registered by local and national authorities.
 
* An individual has to "justify and prove his need" for a firearm for hunting or shooting purposes when applying for a gun purchase permit.
 
* If a registered sports shooters wants a firearm for sports shooting and the particular gun or caliber is not on the approval list of his/her shooting organization, it's a No.
 
* If a sports shooter applies for a second or third firearm for a specific shooting program or a type of hunt,  he/she will experience a No with the advise of selling the guns he/she already has in the gun safe.
 
Folks, this is just a small part of how sports shooters and hunters in Europe are "protected".
 
If you don't like this style, then stay away from any party and politician who wants to hide their agenda by the type of phony remarks as given by Obama. Democrats have learned a lesson, they can't dismiss the needed support from gun owners. So, they invite sports shooters and hunters to support them. If this supports leads to victory, the next step is """sensible gun legislation""".
 
Politicians of the likes of Obama and Clinton may say they respect the Second Amendment, but they don't define it as an individual freedom. They define it as a privilege that should be regulated under the umbrella of common sense.  Not OUR common sense, but the Governments common sense.
 
The result will be gun control, European Style.