Obama to visit Oregon shooting victims’ families

Guns are on display at Roseburg Gun Shop in Roseburg, Oregon. Another nine people were wounded.

Leanne DiLorenzo, 48, leaves flowers at a memorial outside Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, United States, October 3, 2015. That’s 294 mass shootings in just 274 days.

Merkley was born just south of Roseburg and still has family there.

Eight students and a teacher were killed by a gunman who killed himself after a shootout with police.

These latter killings weren’t mass shootings, but they are hardly lesser tragedies. Opponents of new laws say that the Lautenberg Amendment works well enough, and that new legislation would be “substantively insignificant” in terms of its impact on gun crime, in the National Rifle Association’s words. Flowers and balloons were positioned on tables, and markers were available for people to write messages on a banner that says, “UCC Strong.”“I needed to be here, ” student Madysen Sanchez said. With Clinton’s announcement, it is unclear whether, as president, Clinton could get more gun control than Obama has been able to with executive actions.

“When we talked about guns and hunting, he was real open about it”, said neighbor, Louie Flores, 32. As The Washington Post reported in 2014, we are a violent outlier in the developed world. If that pay were reduced by the number of untruths he told – from “climate change”, to federal spending and the debt ceiling and budget, to the supposed effectiveness of more gun laws – he would be broke and in debt, like the nation he so poorly leads. About 33,000 Americans die from gunshots each year, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They are urging lawmakers to enact stronger weapons restrictions, improve campus security and strengthen the mental health system. The first being that the relevant issue is the lack of enforcement, not the lack of gun laws. There are now 85 gun laws languishing in Congress from gun storage and closing loopholes at gun shows to gun tracing.

And most of the students believe that guns aren’t allowed on the campus, although a few military veterans were carrying.

In the aftermath of shootings, gun-rights proponents like to spin the narrative to the mentally ill.

At the time he said, “The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure”.