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Eight days after a gunman opened fire in Roseburg, Oregon, with weapons acquired through a background check, President Obama is weighing the option of using an executive order to circumvent Congress and make background checks a requirement for certain private sellers.

Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) stated, “There may be no specific law” that would have prevented the shooting in Oregon on Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper.” Blumenthal was asked, “can you point to a law, or a

On October 9 Charles Haywood–Purdue University associate professor of business law–contended that “the common sense solution” to campus shootings is campus carry, a mechanism that allows students and faculty the legal avenue of being armed on campus for self-defense.

David Jaques, publisher of conservative newspaper The Roseburg Beacon, is not backing down one bit from comments that President Obama’s planned visit to Roseburg, Oregon, in the wake of the UCC shooting is not welcome by most in the town.

On October 8–one week after Chris Harper Mercer opened fire in the gun free facilities of Umpqua Community College (UCC)–nearly 24 Senate Democrats stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to say they want to put forth gun control legislation, and they are going to do so as soon as the American people rise up in support of the idea.

On October 7–nearly one week after the heinous attack in the gun free facilities of Umpqua Community College (UCC) left nine people dead–The New York Times reported that the attack may have actually increased the attraction of gun rights and the thought of having a gun by one’s side for self-defense.

If the days since the heinous attack on Umpqua Community College (UCC) have taught us anything, it is that good people of Roseburg, Oregon, are not reacting to the actions of one criminal by calling for more gun control on everyone else.

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday that he is ready “to move forward” with a plan to curb gun-rights.

Douglas County, Oregon County Commissioner Chris Boice (R) said “it’s unfortunate” that “we are talking about politics in the middle of this tragedy” and that gun control will be part of the atmosphere of President Obama’s visit on Tuesday’s “O’Reilly

On October 6 the Christian Science Monitor published an interview with Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson in which he stressed that campus carry is an expression of liberty and warned that banning guns from campuses leads to danger.

In the October 5 airing of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 (AC360) the family of Umpqua Community College shooting victim Cheyenne Fitzgerald said they wish Obama would “look where the problem really lies and quit running the gun [control] agenda.”

As Democrats focus on mental illness as an angle that can be used to justify more gun control in the wake of the Umpqua Community College (UCC) attack, singer Demi Lovato is standing up to say the mentally ill are a greater danger to themselves than to others and ought not be used as an excuse to further a political agenda.

On October 5, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said Americans’ safety is being sacrificed to the “radical agenda” of the National Rifle Association (NRA) by Republicans who are nothing more than “puppets” of the NRA to begin with.

President Barack Obama will travel to Oregon this week to visit privately with families of the victims of last week’s shooting at a community college.

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.

In Roseburg, Oregon–the same town which recently witnessed a heinous attack in a gun free zone at Umpqua Community College (UCC)–86-year-old Carolyn Kellim owns a gun store and says she is sick of “executive anus” President Obama’s “strange ideas” on gun control.

On October 2, entertainer Bette Milder lamented her belief that we have reached a point in time where we must show allegiance to the NRA or “shut the f**k up.”

On October 2–the day after the heinous attack on innocents in the gun free facilities of Umpqua Community College–New York magazine claimed that the difficulty of pinpointing future criminals should cause the US to rethink its gun policy and consider making the entire country a gun-free zone.

On October 1 Cheyenne Fitzgerald was shot in the back during the attack at Umpqua Community College, and her mother says the attack is a reminder that Americans must be armed for self-defense.

Two days after nine students were shot and killed at Umpqua Community College, The New York Times sucked a bit of the air out of the gun control lobby by admitting that mass shooters aren’t acquiring guns in some secretive manner, but are walking into gun stores and passing background checks.

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.

On October 3–two days after a gunman killed 10 at the gun free facilities on the Umpqua Community College campus–the New York Daily News called for the U.S. State Department to designate the National Rifle Association (NRA) a “terrorist organization.”

During an October 5 appearance on This Week With George Stephanopoulos, Donald Trump responded to President Obama’s calls for more gun control by stressing that politicians who push gun control to solve problems do not not fully understand the problems they are trying to solve.

Police have arrested four teenagers in Tuolumne, California in connection with a plot to shoot students at Summerville High School. The four allegedly had a list of intended victims and had stockpiled weapons, USA Today reports.

During an October 3 appearance on CNN, Republican strategist Lisa Boothe’s mic appeared to have been cut while she was in the midst of explaining why gun control is not the answer to situations like the shooting at Umpqua Community

In reaction to the heinous October 1 attack on innocent lives at Umpqua Community College, Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera suggested schools must hire armed guards because they cannot trust Obama to take on the gun lobby.

On October 2 New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reiterated his call for Democrats to shut down government in order to force Republicans to support gun control.

When President Obama spoke in reaction to the heinous October 1 attack on Umpqua Community College, he went beyond his usual calls for more gun control and suggested instead that America consider following the path blazed by Australia and Great Britain.

After yet another mass shooting on campus, the time may have come to retire the phrase “trigger warning” itself.

Dr. Ben Carson, a 2016 GOP presidential candidate and world-renowned neurosurgeon, has launched a social media response effort to the Oregon gunman’s reported targeting of Christians in his shooting spree on a community college campus on Thursday.

During the October 1 attack that left 10 dead at Umpque Community College, Army veteran Christ Mintz blocked the door to a classroom with his body, then lay on the floor saying, “It’s my son’s birthday today.” NBC News reports

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 tragic shooting yesterday at the Umpqua Community College, in the small town of Roseburg, Oregon, prompted reactions across college campuses in Texas, a state where campus carry goes into effect starting next school year. It also brought out voices for and against the new law including some Obama-style politicization.

Residents in Roseburg, Oregon, are rallying around the Second Amendment in the wake of the heinous attack on Umpqua Community College (UCC), suggesting the attack itself is proof of why citizens need to be armed for self-defense.

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