NRA president worried about second-term Obama agenda

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By BYRON TAU |
8/29/12 2:25 PM EDT

The National Rifle Association president David Keene says his organization is deeply distrustful of President Obama and fears giving him a second term.

"We see him as the most anti-gun president in modern times," Keene said Wednesday in an interview with the Washington Examiner's Paul Bedard.

"We're fearful of a second Obama administration. That's why for the last year we've been saying that the prime political goal of the National Rifle Association, this year, is to replace Barack Obama in the White House," Keene said.

"He has not accomplished very much in terms of his anti-gun agenda," Keene said, but chalked that up to Republicans in Congress.

Keene said that Obama's 'real' agenda towards guns would be evidence in a second Obama term — and that the NRA would rather see Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan in office.

"It will be doubly enjoyable to have a vice president who describes himself as a Catholic deer hunter," Keene said, referring to Ryan.

The Obama administration has repeatedly refused to push for new gun control measures — even in the wake of high profile mass shootings in Arizona, Colorado, Wisconsin and New York. White House spokesman Jay Carney has said that the president believes that there's a violence problem in the United States, not necessarily a gun problem.

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