Name One Gun Law That Would Have Mattered at Umpqua
The outpouring of grief on social media after Thursday’s shooting at Umpqua Community College was interrupted by President Barack Obama’s statement about it.
The outpouring of grief on social media after Thursday’s shooting at Umpqua Community College was interrupted by President Barack Obama’s statement about it.
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.
Immediately following breaking news of Thursday’s tragic shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, Hollywood celebrities and other stars took to social media to call for gun control.
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.
Columnist Charles Krauthammer criticized President Obama’s statement on the Umpqua Community College as a “100% knee-jerk” statement while “the bodies are still warm” on Thursday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel. Krauthammer stated, “I don’t doubt that the president’s
Douglas County, OR Sheriff John Hanlin declared of the perpetrator of the shooting at Umpqua Community College, “you will never hear me mention his name” at a press briefing on Tuesday. Hanlin said, “We have information that leads us to
Joe Olson–the former president of Umpqua Community College–says the school only keeps one guard on shift at a time and that guard is unarmed.
A frustrated President Obama demanded change on gun control after the Oregon college shooting which grabbed the nation’s attention Thursday.
During an October 1 appearance on CNN’s Newroom former US Marshal Art Roderick said the gunman at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College probably chose his target by knowing it was as “gun free zone facility” and therefore “an easy target.”