It is so disheartening to watch these events occur and then watch a now all-too-often-rehearsed response from the local community, the political establishment, the media, law enforcement and the gun lobbies. “And I will politicize it”, Obama said during a White House press conference to announce his nomination for Education Secretary. “They were barely 20”.
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A police search found another seven weapons inside the apartment of the shooter Christopher Harper-Mercer who was a student at the Umpqua Community College where the shooting took place.
Oregon’s Umpqua Community College dealt with severe tragedy on Thursday when a man clothed in body armor was carrying four guns and killed nine people at the school.
The numbers provided by the State Department are staggering, revealing that more than 10,000 Americans get killed every year by gun violence.
“I think that would be a very significant step forward in this country”, Baldwin said.
“It’s a joke in the industry that Barack Obama is the best gun salesman the US has ever had”, Irwin said.
While none of these things in isolation can be said to be the root cause of the problem, it does show a collective gun culture hasn’t changed, even after further mass shootings over the past decade. This time, the killer’s motive appeared to be his anti-Christian sentiment; in other situations, such killers have known to target people belonging to other faiths or races, and have often suffered from serious mental health issues.
“This makes me wonder who we can trust anymore…” What they are really pushing for is not stopping things like this because we’ve already demonstrated that we can’t, given their policy. Chris Murphy, D-Ct. This is the society that we need to change.
He spoke out against state and federal gun control legislation past year, telling a legislative committee that mandating background checks for private, person-to-person gun sales would not prevent criminals from getting firearms. In a series of votes, the lawmakers rejected an assault weapons ban and high-capacity ammunition magazines as well as bipartisan background check legislation.
“It cannot be this easy for somebody who wants to inflict harm on other people to get his or her hands on a gun”. And I will politicise this. And you should live a life of preparedness to be able to meet the challenge if that bad person should confront you, or the ones you love. And why is that?
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Both said they supported the public statements by Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin, who has vigorously opposed gun control laws and even said he would not enforce new ones locally.
