Views on Guns and Hunting

Views on Guns and Hunting

The article I read, “John McCain, Barack Obama on outdoor issues—again”, is about what McCain and Obama really think of the issues at hand. McCain says that he is against gun control, which I pretty much agree with. I think you should be allowed to have a small revolver for self defense, but only if you have a license. In my opinion it should be illegal to own assault rifles, machine guns, or even just hunting rifles. The reason I feel so strongly about this is because I’m completely against hunting. If hunting rifles there will be a lot less hunting which will mean fewer animals will be brutally killed for no reason. Although McCain is a hunter this doesn’t mean I do not like him. I think he would be a great President. One of my favorite things about him is his role to try to prevent the destruction of wildlife. As you can tell I am someone who loves animals and nature. When I heard about how they were sucking up all of the prairie dogs in the lot near my house so they could build apartment I got so mad. I could not believe they would just kill animals to do that. Then I realized they did that to build my house. As I thought it over I came to my own conclusion. We do need to destroy some nature to build new building or house because our world keeps expanding, but we also need to keep a lot of it for animals, peaceful hikes, fishing and camping. For that reason I side with Obama. He his quoted saying, “We need to make sure that we’re good stewards of the land. It means that we are maintaining access to public lands but are also making sure that we are doing it in a responsible way.” What I think he is saying is that we do need to expand, but in a way that we keep some parts of this country uncontaminated by mans technology. It is a good thing that I can’t vote yet, because I would not know who to vote for. Half the time I side with Obama, and the other half, McCain.