By Meghan Keneally

PUBLISHED: 20:22 EST, 17 January 2013 | UPDATED: 07:56 EST, 18 January 2013

New Jersey governor Chris Christie has slammed the NRA over their recent attack ad branding President Obama as an 'elitist hypocrite' for having Secret Service protection for his two daughters.

'To talk about the president’s children, or any public officer’s children, who have—not by their own choice, but by requirement—to have protection, and to use that somehow to try to make a political point is reprehensible,' Christie said in a press conference on Thursday.

This is not the first time that Christie has broken from the Republican ranks regarding President Obama. But as the saying goes, this time, it's personal.

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Quite the eye: Chris Christie said that it was 'reprehensible' for the NRA to attack the fact that Sasha and Malia Obama receive Secret Service protection

'For any of us who are public figures, you see that kind of ad, and you cringe, you cringe,' he said.

'My children had no choice that I wanted to run for governor. I mean, I pretended that they did, I asked them what they thought. But in the end they had absolutely no choice in whether I ran for governor or not.

'The president doesn’t have a choice, and his children don’t have a choice, of whether they’re going to be protected or not.

'It’s awful to bring public figures' children into the political debate. They don’t deserve to be there.'

Christie clearly feels strongly about the issue as he was quick to post a video of his response to his own YouTube account.

Attack ad: The NRA has launched a preemptive attack against President Obama's unveiling of his gun control plan Wednesday with a new ad that calls him an 'elitist hypocrite'

Members of the Secret Service surround the First Family as they walk to church in August of 2012. Secret Service protection for the immediate family members of U.S. presidents spans back to 1917

The ad in question was released by the National Rifle Association in support of their latest campaign to push for armed guards in schools as a response to the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

'They’ve got real issues to debate on this topic. Get to the real issues. Don’t be dragging people’s children into this, it’s wrong, and I think it demeans them and it makes them less of a valid, trusted source of information on the real issues,' Christie said.

Even though Christie was stalwart in his support of the President over the ad, that was the end of their cross-party similarities as he distanced himself from the executive actions signed by Obama on Wednesday that were the first legislative steps for stricter gun control following the December 14 shooting.

'If all we do is talk about gun control, then we’re missing the point,' Christie said at a town hall meeting just three hours after Obama signed the executive actions.

'What I’d like to have a real conversation about, and I intend to start very, very soon, is not just about gun control. That’s part of it. But it’s also about violence control.'

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