Texas Southern University also experienced a shooting on Friday, resulting in one student’s death and another injured.
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Gun-rights activists say they plan to protest when Obama visits here Friday to meet with families of victims of last week’s college shooting rampage.
President Barack Obama has arrived in Oregon where he will meet privately with family members and surviving victims of last week’s deadly shooting at a community college in Roseburg.
President Barack Obama walks with Oregon Gov. Kate Brown prior to their short motorcade ride to Roseburg H.S., Friday, October 9, 2015 in Roseburg, Ore. After 20 children and six adults were killed in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, Hanlin sent Vice President Joe Biden a letter saying he would never comply with any gun-control law from the Obama administration.
Obama made no public appearances during his visit to the city.
Around 300 people gathered to protest Obama before his arrival in Roseburg, according to The Register-Guard newspaper.
But one of the protest organizers, Michelle Finn, told the Associated Press: “He’s coming here purely to push his garbage, and we don’t want it”.
“What’s become routine…is the response of those who oppose any kind of common-sense gun legislation”, he said. Two brothers sat on the bed of their truck with a sign, reading “We Stand with Sheriff Hanlin” and a Confederate flag flying.
A third overarching problem with Obama’s executive order is the fact that the Second Amendment protects natural rights relating to gun ownership and self-defense.
With the 2016 presidential election around the corner, it’s likely we’ll be hearing more about the gun control issue. A few held signs while others carried holstered guns.
Reuters said Obama only mentioned about the need for the country to come together to prevent such shootings from happening in the future.
“Our thoughts and prayers are not enough”, Obama said the day of the shootings.
Obama still did not say a word about the religious aspect of the tragedy where the gunman specifically asked his victims if they were Christians before gunning them down.
The community had been reeling in shock, he said.
This is what you get from the simplistic dividing of people into “law-abiding” and “criminal”, as well as assuring people that taking a few classes makes you a responsible gun owner: A woman so sure of her righteousness and responsibility that it didn’t even occur to her not to do something so immoral and stupid.
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Many protesters in Roseburg said they were not in a mood to welcome a president who so quickly and callously politicized a tragedy. The President meeting with the families of dead and the wounded, but at least one family did not go to see him.
