Letter: Life experience leads to vote for Obama

Over the past decade I've found myself straddling the ideological fence when it comes to the political arena. Having spent the first 17 years of my life in Los Angeles, I grew up in communities that pushed good-natured American values and even attended Social Justice classes at my Christian elementary and high schools. But, I also grew up in a very conservative family that gave money to the Republican Party and I routinely attended church, chapel and local youth group functions. It was because of this part of my life that I began to shoot shotgun sports competitively and ended up on the National Shotgun Team by the time I was 15 years old. After I graduated high school, I spent five years living and training shotgun shooting at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.