Clinging to His Guns

The White House has a released a photo of President Obama going skeet shooing at Camp David, likely in response to a recent interview Obama did with The New Republic in which he stated that he regularly goes shooting at Camp David.  Questions then came out because no one had seen any photos of this before.  The picture itself, curiously dated August 12, 2012, is below:

A sentence from the AP's report gives us this description, just in case one had trouble putting together all of those confusing shapes and images:

The rifle is cocked in Obama's left shoulder, his left index finger is on the trigger and smoke is coming from the barrel.

But I think they unknowingly stumbled on the reason for all this in the opening sentence:

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has released a photo of President Barack Obama firing a gun, two days before he heads to Minnesota to discuss gun control.

So now we know that the president clings to his guns.