Friday, 9 October 2015

Obama Meets Victims Of Oregon College Shooting

Many residents in the mostly conservative community are on hand to protest the President's call for stricter gun laws.

22:22, UK,Friday 09 October 2015
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Barack Obama has been met by gun rights supporters as he arrived in Oregon to meet with families and survivors of last week's deadly community college shooting.
The US President was whisked away in his motorcade after his helicopter touched down at Roseburg airport on Friday.
Dozens of demonstrators had gathered near the airport to protest Mr Obama's latest call for stricter gun laws.
Guns rights supporters were on hand as the President arrived in Roseburg, Oregon
Protestors carried signs that read "Obama Go Home" and "Gun Free Zones Are For Sitting Ducks".
Demonstrator George Starr said: "By coming here, Obama is going to politicise a tragedy by saying that you have to have gun control.
"It's not that we are bloodthirsty, it's that we want to protect ourselves and our families."
Many residents in the mostly conservative community were angered by the President's comments made within hours of the 1 October shooting at Umpqua Community College.
Nine people were killed and nine others wounded in the latest in a series of mass shootings across America. The gunman, 26-year-old Christopher Harper-Mercer, killed himself after officers arrived at the scene.
In his remarks last week, the President said would continue to raise the need for gun control reform every time a shooting takes place in the US.
"As I said just a few months ago, and I said just a few months before that, and I said each time we see one of these mass shootings, our thoughts and prayers are not enough," he said.
He added that "inaction" on gun control legislation makes all Americans "answerable" for the violence.
Mr Obama met privately with family members at Roseburg High School.
He told reporters afterwards, he had "strong feelings" about the issue of gun control and said the country needed to come together to prevent such shootings from happening in the future.

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