Hundreds of protesters
greeted President Obama’s motorcade in Roseburg, Oregon, Friday as a group
called “Defend Roseburg” held signs and waved banners while others silently
turned their backs as the motorcade rolled by.
Obama came to Roseburg,
the White House said, to mourn with family members of the nine victims shot
dead by a gunman at Umqua Community College on Oct. 1.
“We’re going to have to
come together as a nation to deal with this issue,” Obama said. “But today is
about the families.”
In fact Obama’s Democrat
loyalists in the Senate led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., have already
readied several gun control bills. If those don’t pass, the White House said
Friday the president is considering taking unilateral action by executive order
to create new federal background checks for firearms purchases, ABC
News reported.
Many protesters in
Roseburg said they were not in a mood to welcome a president who so quickly and
callously politicized a tragedy. Some came with their guns to make their point.
All were peaceful.
“He should stay away,”
Gary Shambling, 66, of Winston, whose 1935 Harvester International pickup was
parked Friday morning along the side of Aviation Drive, told
his local newspaper, the Register-Guard. His truck had a large “No Bama” sign in red letters.
“He made it very plain,
15 minutes after the shooting happened,” Shambling said. “He politicized it.
The bodies weren’t even cold.”
Others carried signs
supporting their local sheriff, who’d said earlier that he didn’t believe Obama
should come to the town after making politicized comments about gun control.
Others protesters held
signs saying “Obama Free Zone” and “Go Away” and “Go Home, You’re Not Wanted
Here” as drivers honk their horns passing by. Other signs include “Prayers Not
Politics” and “In Memory of the Fallen” and “#Roseburg Strong.”
Watch Fox News coverage
of today’s protests in Oregon:
More than 8,000 people
"liked" a Facebook page dubbed "Defend Roseburg – Deny Barack
Obama."
The Facebook page
contained the following message:
"The anointed one
his majesty king Obama and the White House have announced a Friday arrival in
Roseburg, Oregon in the wake of Oct 1st’s horrific tragedy at UCC," the
Facebook page reads. "Polarizing as usual, Mr. 0bama has insisted on
politicizing the event as a conduit for increased executive orders on gun control
via means of his pen, and his phone. This blatant disrespect of the victims
families, the community and the town of Roseburg, Mr. Obama's administration is
flying not just the 747 that is airforce one to Oregon, but a three helicopter
team of Sikorsky's that make up HMX-1, known as Marine one to travel to
Roseburg at the taxpayers expense. We need a lot of people. Please come show
your support for Roseburg, not the little man who has no respect for the
Constitution."
Young Conservatives
posted a statement on
its website that referred to the
Roseburg protests as "truly a beautiful sight to see patriots standing up
for their Second Amendment rights to protect life, liberty and property."
The statement continued:
"I can't think of a
better way to send a message than what these fine patriots did by protesting
against a lawless president who seeks to not only take away their right to
protect themselves, but who also ignores the Constitution and tries to usurp
power away from Congress and ultimately, the people.
"Obama is all about
the progressive agenda which he and other radical leftists believe is the
solution to all that ails humankind despite history and common sense testifying
otherwise.
"This is why he's
always ready to politicize a tragedy and instead of offering prayers and kind
words meant to heal, he immediately pushes the agenda, which is exactly what he
did with this shooting.
"Americans are
clearly growing tired of it."
One protester posted a
photo on Twitter with the comment "'Defend Roseburg' planning to protest
POTUS at 2 locations in Roseburg over #guncontrol and #UCCShooting."
That led to a counter tweet
by a man who said "What exactly are they defending? The right to be
ignorant racists?"
According to reports put
out by a pool of White House travel reporters, Obama's motorcade traveled from
the local airport to Roseburg High School where he met with families of the
deceased. The ride took about 10-15 minutes and he got to the school around
12:45 p.m. There were several hundred people clustered outside the gate to the
airport and in the parking lot of a nearby Home Depot.
Many of the people were
snapping photos with their phones. But others carried signs at this location
similar to those lining the highway. About half of the people stationed at this
location welcomed Obama to the town. "The other half were negative or
seemed to be protesting his calls action to tighten the nation's gun
laws," the pool report said.
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