Posted on 10/07/2015 11:01:37 AM PDT by TroutStalker
A week has passed since J.J. Vicari huddled underneath a desk while gunshots exploded in the classroom next door. Now, he is thinking about guns. Not about tightening gun laws, as President Obama urged after nine people were killed at the community college here. But about buying one for himself.
“It’s opened my eyes,” said Mr. Vicari, 19. “I want to have a gun in the house to protect myself, to protect the people I’m with. I’m sure I’ll have a normal life and never have to go through anything like this, but I want to be sure.”
Mr. Obama plans to visit Roseburg on Friday to meet the grieving families of yet another gun rampage, but many people here are bristling at his renewed call for stricter gun laws. In some ways, the rampage at the college by a 26-year-old student, Christopher Harper-Mercer, has actually tightened the embrace of guns in a rural town where shots at rifle ranges echo off the hills and hunters bag deer and elk through the fall.
Some families touched by the violence and students who fled gunfire said they now feared that the kind of bloodshed seen inside Classroom 15 at Snyder Hall, Umpqua Community College, could happen anywhere. Some said they were planning to buy guns. Others said they would seek concealed-weapons permits. Others, echoing gun advocates’ calls for more weapons on campus, said the college should allow its security guard to carry guns. A few said they thought that stricter gun control laws could have averted the massacre.
Even Mr. Obama’s visit has stirred fiercely polarized responses. Some residents and the publisher of a weekly conservative newspaper said he was not welcome, and accused him of using the town’s anguish to advance his gun-control agenda.
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Conservatives, and anyone else disgusted with this person, should greet him with signs printed "WELCOME, our Executive Anus".
Just imagine if a sea of these placards were in the audience. The media will have hernias trying to photo the "welcome" without showing them.
Oregon ping
Getting any anti-Democrat signs through a secret service checkpoint is extremely difficult. They've even gotten good at taking apart rubber cemented together signs to find the true message inside, and getting tablets through is getting much more difficult.
"It's opened my eyes," said Mr. Vicari, 19. "I want to have a gun in the house to protect myself, to protect the people I'm with. I'm sure I'll have a normal life and never have to go through anything like this, but I want to be sure."
At night ancient “slide projectors” can be used to illuminate a wall with a message. This requires positioning and power but it can make a BIG sign.
I went by a Wash DC hotel that had BOYCOTT projected on it in three foot letters.
A video projector works too.
I been pointing out that Southern Oregon is very conservative.
0bama will find a whole different kind of country when he gets down there.
Sorry, kid, gotta be 21 to purchase a handgun from an FFL.
FOX Radio has reported that Hitlery Rotten Clinton will show up in Roseburg this Friday.
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