David Jaques, publisher of conservative newspaper The Roseburg Beacon, is not backing down one bit from comments that President Obama’s planned visit to Roseburg, Oregon, in the wake of the UCC shooting is not welcome by most in the town.
Bonnie Schaan and Jessy Atkinson, the mother and brother of Cheyeanne Fitzgerald, who was wounded during the recent shooting in Roseburg, OR said they “want to be left alone” and expressed hope the media will leave along with the president
On October 8–one week after Chris Harper Mercer opened fire in the gun free facilities of Umpqua Community College (UCC)–nearly 24 Senate Democrats stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to say they want to put forth gun control legislation, and they are going to do so as soon as the American people rise up in support of the idea.
On October 7–nearly one week after the heinous attack in the gun free facilities of Umpqua Community College (UCC) left nine people dead–The New York Times reported that the attack may have actually increased the attraction of gun rights and the thought of having a gun by one’s side for self-defense.
If the days since the heinous attack on Umpqua Community College (UCC) have taught us anything, it is that good people of Roseburg, Oregon, are not reacting to the actions of one criminal by calling for more gun control on everyone else.
“We consider this martyerdom. You confess your faith, you die for your faith.”
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday that he is ready “to move forward” with a plan to curb gun-rights.
Douglas County, Oregon County Commissioner Chris Boice (R) said “it’s unfortunate” that “we are talking about politics in the middle of this tragedy” and that gun control will be part of the atmosphere of President Obama’s visit on Tuesday’s “O’Reilly
On October 6 the Christian Science Monitor published an interview with Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson in which he stressed that campus carry is an expression of liberty and warned that banning guns from campuses leads to danger.
In the October 5 airing of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 (AC360) the family of Umpqua Community College shooting victim Cheyenne Fitzgerald said they wish Obama would “look where the problem really lies and quit running the gun [control] agenda.”
As Democrats focus on mental illness as an angle that can be used to justify more gun control in the wake of the Umpqua Community College (UCC) attack, singer Demi Lovato is standing up to say the mentally ill are a greater danger to themselves than to others and ought not be used as an excuse to further a political agenda.
On October 5, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said Americans’ safety is being sacrificed to the “radical agenda” of the National Rifle Association (NRA) by Republicans who are nothing more than “puppets” of the NRA to begin with.
President Barack Obama will travel to Oregon this week to visit privately with families of the victims of last week’s shooting at a community college.
During the October 4 airing of CNN’s State of the Union, gun control proponent Mark Kelly reacted to the Umpqua Community College (UCC) shooting by calling for an expansion of the same background checks that the Oregon gunman passed to get his weapons.
In Roseburg, Oregon–the same town which recently witnessed a heinous attack in a gun free zone at Umpqua Community College (UCC)–86-year-old Carolyn Kellim owns a gun store and says she is sick of “executive anus” President Obama’s “strange ideas” on gun control.
On October 2, entertainer Bette Milder lamented her belief that we have reached a point in time where we must show allegiance to the NRA or “shut the f**k up.”
On October 2–the day after the heinous attack on innocents in the gun free facilities of Umpqua Community College–New York magazine claimed that the difficulty of pinpointing future criminals should cause the US to rethink its gun policy and consider making the entire country a gun-free zone.
On October 1 Cheyenne Fitzgerald was shot in the back during the attack at Umpqua Community College, and her mother says the attack is a reminder that Americans must be armed for self-defense.
Two days after nine students were shot and killed at Umpqua Community College, The New York Times sucked a bit of the air out of the gun control lobby by admitting that mass shooters aren’t acquiring guns in some secretive manner, but are walking into gun stores and passing background checks.
A self-defense and law enforcement training facility in Torrance, California, claims that sometime around 2012 or 2013 Umpqua Community College gunman Chris Harper Mercer wanted to take advanced firearm instruction but was denied because he allegedly wanted to forgo a gun safety course to do it.
In a rampage lasting about 10 minutes, Christopher Harper-Mercer took nine lives Thursday morning in chilling fashion before killing himself as officers closed in, placing the small town of Roseburg among settings that have become infamous for inexplicable violence.
On October 3–two days after a gunman killed 10 at the gun free facilities on the Umpqua Community College campus–the New York Daily News called for the U.S. State Department to designate the National Rifle Association (NRA) a “terrorist organization.”
During an October 5 appearance on This Week With George Stephanopoulos, Donald Trump responded to President Obama’s calls for more gun control by stressing that politicians who push gun control to solve problems do not not fully understand the problems they are trying to solve.
Police have arrested four teenagers in Tuolumne, California in connection with a plot to shoot students at Summerville High School. The four allegedly had a list of intended victims and had stockpiled weapons, USA Today reports.
During an October 3 appearance on CNN, Republican strategist Lisa Boothe’s mic appeared to have been cut while she was in the midst of explaining why gun control is not the answer to situations like the shooting at Umpqua Community
