Post by Bo/CCPU Founder on Oct 6, 2015 9:01:33 GMT -6
Residents of Roseburg, Oregon, defend 2nd Amendment, blast Obama in wake of shooting by Ben Bullard [story link thanks to Dan El@ teapartycommunity.com]
personalliberty.com/residents-roseburg-oregon-defend-2nd-amendment-blast-obama-wake-shooting/
A lot of people in Roseburg, Oregon, see a solution to violence in gun-free zones — one that’s very different from the one pushed by progressives who’ve swept in to make political hay of the latest tragedy.
In Roseburg, the small, politically conservative city where a man killed nine people — apparently in a rampage that targeted Christians — at Umpqua Community College, firearm ownership is a way of life.
Following last week’s murders, few people there have expressed any desire for that to change. In fact, those who’ve spoken out about the killings say the answer lies in greater 2nd Amendment freedom — not gun control.
“Interviews with almost a dozen [Roseburg] residents on Friday yielded unanimity — even in the queue of people lining up to donate blood at a tent set up downtown,” Britain’s The Guardian reported.
Those interviewed by The Guardian said things like “They need to leave us our guns and go after the lunatics,” ” Make this a gun-free zone and you paint a target on us,” and “Obama sucks, he’s stupid … If criminals want to get guns they’ll get guns.”
Associating Obama with gun control was already a common theme in Roseburg; one local gun store has a cardboard cutout of Obama prominently displayed with a sign proclaiming him “gun salesman of the year.” While the prevailing sentiment may indeed be that “Obama sucks,” some make the case more eloquently than others.
Here’s David Jaques, publisher for local newspaper The Roseburg Beacon, explaining why Obama isn’t welcome in a city where people are trying to heal instead of host a national policy debate:
“The president has no connection with this community; he has no connection with any of the families, and he made it abundantly clear in his opening press statement … we haven’t even identified bodies. We’ve still got incident command trying to contain the scene, and he’s holding a press conference 3,000 miles from here, telling us that he — almost implying that he singlehandedly could have prevented this if the Congress would have listened to him,” says an irritated Jaques.
Jaques later told Breitbart that an Obama visit would be nothing more than “a campaign stop for an agenda to take away American citizens’ right to own firearms.”
Though he’s been respectfully silent on the politics swirling around the tragedy, local Sheriff John Hanlin has been an ardent 2nd Amendment supporter throughout his tenure. His position hasn’t gone unnoticed by appreciative locals — or by the national media, whose sophisticates are happy to paint him as a nut case.
“Gun control is NOT the answer to preventing heinous crimes like school shootings,” Hanlin said in a sheriff’s office letter posted to social media after the 2012 Sandy Hook shootings precipitated fresh talk of federal gun control.
Though he’s admired by locals for his past positions against gun-free zones and ownership restrictions, Hanlin is earning a new kind of admiration for the way he has handled the shooting in his own county: He’s refusing to speak the name of the killer. That places the focus on the innocent, instead of the perpetrator. And it’s an idea that’s resonating with people both locally and nationwide.
personalliberty.com/residents-roseburg-oregon-defend-2nd-amendment-blast-obama-wake-shooting/
A lot of people in Roseburg, Oregon, see a solution to violence in gun-free zones — one that’s very different from the one pushed by progressives who’ve swept in to make political hay of the latest tragedy.
^ memes thanks to Terry Smith@ www.libertyheads.com ^
In Roseburg, the small, politically conservative city where a man killed nine people — apparently in a rampage that targeted Christians — at Umpqua Community College, firearm ownership is a way of life.
Following last week’s murders, few people there have expressed any desire for that to change. In fact, those who’ve spoken out about the killings say the answer lies in greater 2nd Amendment freedom — not gun control.
“Interviews with almost a dozen [Roseburg] residents on Friday yielded unanimity — even in the queue of people lining up to donate blood at a tent set up downtown,” Britain’s The Guardian reported.
Those interviewed by The Guardian said things like “They need to leave us our guns and go after the lunatics,” ” Make this a gun-free zone and you paint a target on us,” and “Obama sucks, he’s stupid … If criminals want to get guns they’ll get guns.”
Associating Obama with gun control was already a common theme in Roseburg; one local gun store has a cardboard cutout of Obama prominently displayed with a sign proclaiming him “gun salesman of the year.” While the prevailing sentiment may indeed be that “Obama sucks,” some make the case more eloquently than others.
Here’s David Jaques, publisher for local newspaper The Roseburg Beacon, explaining why Obama isn’t welcome in a city where people are trying to heal instead of host a national policy debate:
“The president has no connection with this community; he has no connection with any of the families, and he made it abundantly clear in his opening press statement … we haven’t even identified bodies. We’ve still got incident command trying to contain the scene, and he’s holding a press conference 3,000 miles from here, telling us that he — almost implying that he singlehandedly could have prevented this if the Congress would have listened to him,” says an irritated Jaques.
Jaques later told Breitbart that an Obama visit would be nothing more than “a campaign stop for an agenda to take away American citizens’ right to own firearms.”
Though he’s been respectfully silent on the politics swirling around the tragedy, local Sheriff John Hanlin has been an ardent 2nd Amendment supporter throughout his tenure. His position hasn’t gone unnoticed by appreciative locals — or by the national media, whose sophisticates are happy to paint him as a nut case.
“Gun control is NOT the answer to preventing heinous crimes like school shootings,” Hanlin said in a sheriff’s office letter posted to social media after the 2012 Sandy Hook shootings precipitated fresh talk of federal gun control.
Though he’s admired by locals for his past positions against gun-free zones and ownership restrictions, Hanlin is earning a new kind of admiration for the way he has handled the shooting in his own county: He’s refusing to speak the name of the killer. That places the focus on the innocent, instead of the perpetrator. And it’s an idea that’s resonating with people both locally and nationwide.