“I’ve obviously got very strong feelings about this”, he said, standing alongside Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D). “We’re going to have to come together as a country to see how we can prevent these issues from taking place, but today it’s about the families, and their grief and the love we feel for them”. Instead, Confederate flags and anti-Obama signs greeted the president as his motorcade made its way to Roseburg High School in Roseburg.
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On the day Mr. Obama visited Roseburg, two unrelated shootings at universities in Arizona and Texas on Friday left two students dead and four injured, continuing a series of campus violence following last week’s rampage at Umpqua Community College in the Oregon town. Now only dealers officially certified as “engaged in business” of firearms sales need conduct such checks.
One person was killed and three others wounded, allegedly by 18-year-old freshman at Northern Arizona University’s Flagstaff campus.
Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and Rep. Peter DeFazio joined Obama on Air Force One. “In 1968, Robert F. Kennedy campaigned here – the senator heckled as he pushed for tougher gun laws”. The protest was prompted by Obama’s remarks on October 1 in a press conference responding to the massacre that killed eight students and one professor.
KARLINSKY: Her father went so far as to say he would refuse to meet with the President. The bodies had not been buried.
“He’s already going to push his agenda”, she added.
Protesters await President Obama’s arrival at Roseburg airport Protesters lined Aviation Drive near the Roseburg airport in anticipation of President Obama’s arrival Friday morning. He pledged to “politicize” the issue.
The shooting has sparked new talk about gun violence, though history suggests that prospects for enacting legislation are highly unlikely.
Stacy Boylan told Fox News earlier in the week that he does not think the president’s proposals for tougher gun control laws would have stopped his daughter Ana from being shot. How are we going to attract mental health?
Immediately after the shooting, Obama said he meant to politicize the Roseburg attack to put pressure on Congress to adopt gun restrictions – a statement that infuriated much of this town of 22,000 people about 180 miles south of Portland.
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Referring to potential protesters, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said: “Those individuals have nothing to fear”. But he did not show the same anger he has previously, saying the day was about the families. A few citizens have expressed that he’s unwelcome in the city and even created a Facebook page for their cause. “How could he? He is not allowed in school anymore”. The 34-year-old said the shooting in her hometown prompted her to apply for a concealed weapons permit.
