Obama: US Must ‘Come Together’ Over Gun Crime

A few held signs welcoming the president.

“Our thoughts and prayers are not enough”, Obama said the day of the shootings. “Please come show your support for Roseburg, not the little man who has no respect for the Constitution”.

In Houston, one person was killed and another wounded at a campus apartment complex at Texas Southern University, police said, adding that one possible suspect had been detained. “And so we’re going to have to come together as a country to see how we can prevent these issues from taking place”.

Obama has been using his fundraising speeches and many others these days to point to progress he said the country has made during the past seven years, including a drop in the unemployment rate and the addition of millions of people to the rolls of those with health insurance. “This slaughter has to stop”.

President Barack Obama on Saturday encouraged supporters to be politically active, saying that he plans to remain so when his presidency concludes and declared, “I’m just getting started”.

Many in the crowd were openly carrying guns as they waved the American flag. The measure would at least partly close what is widely known as the “gun show loophole”. We do have a Second Amendment, which the Supreme Court has ruled gives an individual the right to keep and bear arms. Edwards says her community is still in shock.

Obama did not speak address the protesters in Roseburg, but Harju took the day off from work, strapped his.40-caliber pistol to his belt buckle, hopped in a rig with the sticker “Oregunian” on the back window and joined hundreds of other protesters.

A small group of 60-something activists struggled with three 4-foot by 8-foot panels, each with a single word. “They need to heal before he comes here with his agenda”.

“Go home Obama”, was written on many signs.

Rick Breen, a retired Army veteran, carried two signs. The larger one rested on the pistol sticking out of his jeans pocket. But in fact, the proliferation of campus-carry, stand your ground and “guns everywhere” laws is a grave threat to our freedom.

“I’ve spoken to my family, and for myself and for my daughter and son, on principle, I find that I am in disagreement with his policies on gun control, and therefore, we will not be attending the visit”, Stacy Boylan said. “We could have stopped that murderer in his tracks”.

The majority of you bought your guns legally and use them that way. “And we believe then we will have peace in this land”.

Which is why past efforts to push gun control – even in the wake of tragedies like the shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, or the massacre of school children in Sandy Hook, Connecticut – have failed. “In 1968, Robert F. Kennedy campaigned here – the senator heckled as he pushed for tougher gun laws”.

President Barack Obama touched down in Oregon to comfort those affected by the Umpqua Community College shooting, but was greeted by armed protesters intent on making their side of the argument on guns heard.

Journalist Rory Carroll posted a picture to Twitter of Candie Kinney, co-owner of the Roseburg Gun Shop in Oregon, with a big grin on her face.

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.