Conservative Roseburg, OR Defending Gun Rights, Tooling-Up After Mass Shooting. Stay in DC Mr. President!

By Robert Farago

A little known, little discussed fact: the Umpqua Community College mass shooting happened in a deeply conservative community. One that supports citizens’ natural, civil and Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms. The New York Times, of all people, explored the “irony” of that. Like this . . .

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.”

As the article reveals, Mr. Vicar is hardly alone in his views on gun rights. Hence the more widely reported fact that the town has little desire to host the President of the United States, who would no doubt use his appearance at the crime scene to promote his gun control agenda.

Mr. Obama plans …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns