I would encourage all the families to meet with President Obama. I hope the families and friends won't harden their hearts to President Obama's visit. There is much to be said and the exchange is important.
I am wondering if President Obama will make a visit to the school and speak to those traumatized by the incident.
Sheriff Hanlin is wrong. He has closed his mind to what may prove to help communities be protected from this level of violence and death.
Fox has to have a diversion from the catastrophic storm in North and South Carolina. Whoever heard of a climate crisis?
The families of those murdered have a support system of families throughout the country. They should consider opening themselves up to the other families.
Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin addresses the media following a
deadly shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon AP
1 October 2015
By Ian Johnston
The sheriff (click here) of the Oregon county where 10 people were shot dead at a community college claimed that gun controls would not prevent “heinous crimes like school shootings” in a letter to US Vice-President Joe Biden two years ago.
John Hanlin, sheriff of Douglas County, also said in the letter that he would refuse to enforce gun laws that he considered to be unconstitutional and said he would not allow federal officers to do so in the county.
At the time, gun-control campaigners were pressing for reform after the Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut in December 2012, in which 20 children and six children were shot dead by 20-year-old Adam Lanza, who also killed his mother and himself.
At least 10 people were killed and seven others were wounded when a gunman opened fire at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Douglas County, on Thursday. The shooter died during an exchange of fire with police. It was the 45th shooting at a school in the US this year....
"The Independent" is stating this was the 45th school shooting in the USA taking the lives of 142 people.
1 October 2015
By Justin Carissimo
I am wondering if President Obama will make a visit to the school and speak to those traumatized by the incident.
Sheriff Hanlin is wrong. He has closed his mind to what may prove to help communities be protected from this level of violence and death.
Fox has to have a diversion from the catastrophic storm in North and South Carolina. Whoever heard of a climate crisis?
The families of those murdered have a support system of families throughout the country. They should consider opening themselves up to the other families.
Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin addresses the media following a
deadly shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon AP1 October 2015
By Ian Johnston
The sheriff (click here) of the Oregon county where 10 people were shot dead at a community college claimed that gun controls would not prevent “heinous crimes like school shootings” in a letter to US Vice-President Joe Biden two years ago.
John Hanlin, sheriff of Douglas County, also said in the letter that he would refuse to enforce gun laws that he considered to be unconstitutional and said he would not allow federal officers to do so in the county.
At the time, gun-control campaigners were pressing for reform after the Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut in December 2012, in which 20 children and six children were shot dead by 20-year-old Adam Lanza, who also killed his mother and himself.
At least 10 people were killed and seven others were wounded when a gunman opened fire at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Douglas County, on Thursday. The shooter died during an exchange of fire with police. It was the 45th shooting at a school in the US this year....
"The Independent" is stating this was the 45th school shooting in the USA taking the lives of 142 people.
1 October 2015
By Justin Carissimo
Add the city of Roseberg, Oregon (click here) to the long list of cities mourning from a tragic mass shooting in 2015.
Oregon Attorney General Ellen
Rosenblum announced on Thursday afternoon that 10 people were killed and
seven others wounded at Oregon's Umpqua Community College.
There have been 142 school shootings in the US since
the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012, a near average of one a week, according
to data compiled by Mass Shooting Tracker....
Mass Shooting Tracker (click here)
Mass Shooting Tracker has news references to all they list. Below is an example.
January 2, 2015
Memphis, TN (WMC) -
Five people were injured (click here) after being shot on a party bus traveling down Interstate 240 early New Year's Day.
Memphis police officers were called to the shooting in the area of I-240 and Poplar Avenue, where an SUV was reported to be shooting at a party bus around 3 a.m.
The party bus exited I-240 and drove to the Baptist East emergency room with five victims. Two people were in extremely critical condition.
Dale Westbrook and his friend, Marcus McKinney, rushed to Baptist Memorial Hospital after finding out their close friend was taken there.
"He has been shot in the head due to a verbal argument, just crazy," said Westbrook....
It's the wild west in the USA. I would think state departments for other countries would list the danger to those that want to travel abroad. This Oregon shooting was a very small community where everyone knows each other and the man who shot his peers had collected 13 guns. There is no telling where the violence will break out. The country has absolutely no control over it.
I don't think international visitors are allowed to bring or carry guns unless they are with another country's government. So, international travelers are sitting ducks. Travel at your own risk.
Mass Shooting Tracker (click here)
Mass Shooting Tracker has news references to all they list. Below is an example.
January 2, 2015
Memphis, TN (WMC) -
Five people were injured (click here) after being shot on a party bus traveling down Interstate 240 early New Year's Day.
Memphis police officers were called to the shooting in the area of I-240 and Poplar Avenue, where an SUV was reported to be shooting at a party bus around 3 a.m.
The party bus exited I-240 and drove to the Baptist East emergency room with five victims. Two people were in extremely critical condition.
Dale Westbrook and his friend, Marcus McKinney, rushed to Baptist Memorial Hospital after finding out their close friend was taken there.
"He has been shot in the head due to a verbal argument, just crazy," said Westbrook....
It's the wild west in the USA. I would think state departments for other countries would list the danger to those that want to travel abroad. This Oregon shooting was a very small community where everyone knows each other and the man who shot his peers had collected 13 guns. There is no telling where the violence will break out. The country has absolutely no control over it.
I don't think international visitors are allowed to bring or carry guns unless they are with another country's government. So, international travelers are sitting ducks. Travel at your own risk.
