(Breitbart) –
Residents in Roseberg, Oregon, are rallying around the Second Amendment in the
wake of the heinous attack on Umpqua Community College (UCC), suggesting the
attack itself is proof of why citizens need to be armed for self-defense.
According to
the Associated Press, Roseberg is a mill town surrounded by hunting and
fishing opportunities, and one where many residents say they do not leave home
without a handgun for self-defense. They do not carry because crime is high,
but because crime is low and they want to keep it that way.
Consequently,
residents like J.C. Smith believe the attack at UCC was made possible by the
fact that the school denied the exercise of Second Amendment rights to its
students. Smith suggests that “barring people from carrying guns on campus
made it particularly vulnerable to a ‘lone wolf’ attack” like the one witnessed
Thursday.
Casey Runyan, a
disabled Marine, said he carries to protect himself and pointed to the UCC
attack as proof of the need to be ready to do so. Runyan said he carries a
Glock handgun “everywhere he goes.” He added, “All my friends agree with me.
That’s the only kind of friends I have.”
Roseberg sits in
Douglas County, where Sheriff John Hanlin drew attention to himself by fighting
an expansion of gun control in 2014. He fought hard against expanded background
checks–gun control’s Trojan Horse–even sending a letter to Vice President Joe
Biden expressing his conviction that the laws being pushed were “offending the
constitutional rights of [Douglas County] citizens.”
On October 2–the day
after the heinous attack on UCC–Sheriff Hanlin made clear that his views
remained the same and gun control is not the solution to
stopping attacks like the one carried out in Roseberg.
http://www.teaparty.org/oregon-residents-rally-citizens-must-armed-122735/
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