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President Barack Obama issued a similar proclamation, ordering flags to be half-staff at the White House and all public buildings, as well as military and naval stations.

“We wish to be clear that mayor Larry Rich, city council president Tom Ryan and the Roseburg city council welcome the president to Roseburg and will extend him every courtesy”, the statement said.

Armed suspect Chris Harper-Mercer walked into a class at Snyder Hall on Thursday, killing multiple and wounding several others before taking his own life.

Others weren’t as fortunate. She said she kept “two full mags in my Glock case…No one will be “dropping” by my house uninvited”. Others were killed after being told to crawl across the floor.

The only way to satisfy those who lament the availability of guns is not to nibble away at the margins as the president and other liberal politicians say is their goal.

As police investigate Thursday’s mass shooting at a college in Oregon, neighbors are seeking answers of their own- even as they battle through enormous pain.

Authorities say the gunman who killed nine people at an Oregon community college killed himself as officers arrived.

In Washington, President Barack Obama lamented the government’s inability to pass stricter gun laws even after attacks like the one in Oregon.

Victim Kim Dietz, 59, was attending Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, as a mature student alongside her daughter Shannon, 18, who survived the attack unharmed.

Mintz’s family told WFMY News 2 that when the shooting erupted, he told his classmates to remain calm then went to confront the heavily armed Harper-Mercer, who was later shot and killed in a gun battle with sheriff’s deputies.

Obama, visibly frustrated and shaken during his address, is once again advocating for responsible gun laws in America, because as the President stated, the current regulations do nothing to prevent similar situations from happening elsewhere in the country.

Harper-Mercer was officially identified on Friday as the assailant who survivors said stormed into the classroom of his introductory writing class on Thursday and shot the professor at point-blank range, before picking off other victims one at a time as he questioned each about...

The sheriff in Roseburg, Oregon, where a gunman killed 9 students at Umpqua Community College earlier this week, said that the shooter killed himself during a confrontation with police at the scene of the campus assault. Thursday, October 1, 2015, after a deadly shooting. Two...

She prayed and played dead, frozen to the floor.

He urged individuals to lobby the authorities to implement “common-sense gun laws”. Seems the more people you kill, the more you’re in the limelight.