Chris Harper Mercer

During the October 4 airing of CNN’s State of the Union, gun control proponent Mark Kelly reacted to the Umpqua Community College (UCC) shooting by calling for an expansion of the same background checks that the Oregon gunman passed to get his weapons.

A self-defense and law enforcement training facility in Torrance, California, claims that sometime around 2012 or 2013 Umpqua Community College gunman Chris Harper Mercer wanted to take advanced firearm instruction but was denied because he allegedly wanted to forgo a gun safety course to do it.

In a rampage lasting about 10 minutes, Christopher Harper-Mercer took nine lives Thursday morning in chilling fashion before killing himself as officers closed in, placing the small town of Roseburg among settings that have become infamous for inexplicable violence.

How President Obama and countless other politicians and pundits can fail to grasp—or be unwilling to confront—the obvious connection between the breakdown of American family life and a rise in violent crime is a mystery deserving examination. The 26-year-old shooter Chris Harper Mercer was the umpteenth example of a fatherless boy who grows up to be a violent criminal.

A local news report gives the eyewitness account of student Rand McGowan, who Chris Harper-Mercer shot in the hand, as told by his mother Stephanie Salas.

The Los Angeles Times reports that after searching Umpqua Community College (UCC) and Chris Harper Mercer’s residence law enforcement officials recovered a total of 13 firearms belonging to Mercer–all of which were purchased “legally.”

The Daily Mail is reporting that the Umpqua Community College (UCC) gunman, Chris Harper Mercer, handed a thumb drive containing a “possible manifesto” to one student before opening fire on others on October 1.

The 20-year-old murderer who opened fire at Umpqua Community College on Thursday had lived in Southern California previously, according to news reports.

Late Thursday evening, police named 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer as the man who shot and killed at least nine students, many of them women, at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon.

After Chris Harper Mercer opened fire on the Umpqua Community College (UCC) campus, killing 10 people on October 1, Breitbart News reported that the UCC was a gun free zone—a zone that is so gun free even the security guards were not allowed to carry guns.

According to CBS News, a blog which appears to be Chris Harper Mercer’s “[referenced] multiple shootings,” including the shooting carried out by Flanagan on August 26.