Locals speak, take action after mass shooting in Oregon

“This delegation will come together with solutions in unison”, DeFazio said, before reiterating Brown’s words: “But today is not the day”. While it is still too early to know all of the facts, the effects of an incident such as this one are long-lasting. “It is also time to honor our first responders and emergency personnel who acted so heroically in helping the victims, survivors and family members in their time of need”.

Governor Brown will travel to Roseburg immediately following the press conference. “Ending these massacres is going to be about compromise”.

In Oregon, the divide between urban places, which are booming, especially the states largest city, Portland, and rural ones, which are largely struggling, has often shaped the debate over guns and other social issues. They’ve talked about legislation that would make people criminally liable if they fail to secure their firearms against theft.

Shocking gun violence at Clackamas Town Center in 2012 and Springfield’s Thurston High School in 1998 each spawned laws expanding criminal background checks on gun transfers.

“You can not continue to be politically correct and I think that it is going to solve anything”, Brown said. Well, this is something we should politicize.

“Our thoughts and prayers are not enough“, said Obama, urging voters to judge candidates for their stance on gun violence.

Part of the dynamic of the gun law question in Oregon and the gun debate nationally has been the role of national groups like Everytown for Gun Safety, the organization funded by Michael R. Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor.

“When are we going to recognize that there are evil people in this world that will always find a way to do what they do?”

Retired U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Lt. Col. Rick Francona, is among those who believe that Umpqua Community College being a “gun free zone” may have been one of the factors that led the shooter, 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer, to choose it. “A rule against guns on campus that effectively disarmed all students on that campus, except for the killer”.