Senators React to Oregon Shooting, Talk Gun Legislation

“When it comes to the debt ceiling, we’re not going back there”, Obama said at a press conference Friday, referring to past negotiations with Republicans in 2011. “Every single day. Kids are just running for their lives, trying to get to school”.

Never. The increasing number of horrific shootings and the continuous onslaught of less spectacular, daily gun-related deaths should be enough to make lawmakers who support common sense gun laws state their support boldly and unequivocally.

The shooting on an Oregon college campus Thursday fired up the gun law debate on both sides of the issue.

President Obama, lashing out at those who oppose gun limits, said he will continue fighting for laws like expanded background checks for people buying guns for the rest of his presidency.

In response to Bush’s comments, Obama said, “I think the American people should hear that and make their own judgments based on the fact that every couple months we have a mass shooting“. “The main thing I’m going to do is … talk about this on a regular basis”. We all have our thoughts and opinions on what can be done to change this course for America.

One witness said he had demanded to know students’ religion, shooting those who answered that they were Christian.

The discussion on gun control laws was revived after a gunman fatally shot nine people at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon.

The Washington Post said it was incontrovertible that guns killed many more Americans than terrorism. “I think that the president, with all due respect, needs to say what is the remedy that would prevent this from happening again”, MPR’s Capitol View reports.

The president and Democrats want to increase spending beyond the agreed-upon caps of the 2011 budget sequester, while most Republicans want to lift only military spending while making further cuts on the domestic side.

He says he plans to keep talking about the gun control issue and “will politicise it”. Authorities said that the state medical examiner’s office will release the identity of the victims as early as Friday.

Oregon Governor Kate Brown says, “I know I am joined by my fellow Oregonians and Americans in profound dismay and heartbreak at this tragedy at Umpqua Community College“.

OBAMA: Mr. Putin had to go into Syria, not out of strength, but out of weakness because his client, Mr. Assad, was crumbling, and it was insufficient for him simply to send them arms and money. Nine people were killed and seven wounded.

“But you can not have an issue like that potentially wreck the entire us economy anymore than I should hold the entire budget hostage through my desire to do something about <i>gun violencei>”, Obama continued.