Tight presidential race in northern Michigan being 'fought to the last day'
CBC
It's been a busy week at the Chippewa County Shooting Association gun range on the outskirts of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.
The club is holding it's annual "sight-in" for members to get their scope tuned up for the coming deer hunting season.
And while sitting around the woodstove, the talk inevitably shifts into politics.
"I would say anybody who's a member at this range is a conservative," said 69-year-old Marine corp veteran Gerry Wolski, who says he bases his vote on gun rights.
"I consider other things, but the most important item to me is firearm ownership and the Constitution and the second amendment."
He says he has already voted Republican in this election, fearing that Democrats will "disarm Americans."
"90-95 per cent of them have never owned a firearm, they've never shot a firearm, have no idea how it works and yet they're trying to pass laws to control it. And that's politics," said Wolski.
"Any politician will say whatever they have to say to get your vote."
Club president Damon Lieurance says this campaign feels very divisive, with people stopping by the Donald Trump signs on this lawn to "swear at me and give me the finger," but he says there's no sign of that at the gun club.
"I think there's some members of the club who vote Democrat but don't talk about it. Conversations can get heated," he said.
"We have a saying that 'An armed society is a polite society," so the conversations, while heated, do stay polite."
There are also mixed but polite political views on the campus of Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.
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