President Obama To Visit Families Of Oregon Community College Shooting Victims

President Barack Obama speaks after meeting with families of victims of the shooting rampage in Roseburg, as Mayor Larry Rich, left, and Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, right, look on on October. 9, 2015.

“Since the announcement that President Obama may be in the Roseburg area on Friday to meet with the families that lost loved ones at Umpqua Community College, news outlets have been announcing that the president was not welcome in Roseburg”.

He was not scheduled to make public remarks during his short stop in Roseburg, planning to meet privately with the families of the victims. About a dozen people who said they were past or present students at the community college waved signs in front of the high school welcoming Obama.

Immediately after the Oregon shooting, a visibly angry Obama appeared at the White House to declare that thoughts and prayers are no longer enough in the aftermath of such incidents and that the nation’s gun laws needed to be changed.

“We are going to have to come together as a Country to work on these rights but today it’s about the families, their grief and the love we feel for them”.

Signs greeting Obama, according to the pooled press reports, were “Please leave us in peace”, “Welcome to Roseburg”, “We support our Sheriff”, and “Gun Free Zones are for sitting ducks”.

Senate Democrats unveiled plans for gun control reforms, including a stronger background check system, less than one week after the Oregon shooting.

Mr. Obama sought to steer clear of the debate over USA gun laws.

Hunting is popular in Oregon, a state with relatively liberal gun laws. The county commissioners tried to tamp down any suggestion that Obama was not welcome.

The publisher of the local paper, David Jaques, has also denounced the visit, saying Obama was not “welcome here to grandstand for political purposes”. I got to school on time, sat down and pulled out the paper to turn it. It was about 30 or 40 minutes into the class when I heard a couple of shots fired, I couldn’t hear anything when he had walked in because my ears where ringing so badly.

And at Texas Southern University in Houston, one person was killed and another injured at a campus apartment complex.

In 1968, while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination, Robert F. Kennedy told a hostile crowd that it was too easy for people who should not own a gun to buy one.

“She had prepared a speech, actually, for him about gun control and how she didn’t want her name to be spun into something that she did not believe”, Godon said.

“I certainly did my best to do so and I just wanted him to know we really appreciate him coming here”.

White House officials have downplayed the president’s gun control message in the lead-up to his visit.