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Friday, October 2, 2015

OREGON SCHOOL SHOOTER ASKED VICTIMS IF THEY WERE CHRISTIANS; THEN SHOT THEM IN THE HEAD~OBAMA POLITICIZES ISSUE FOR MORE GUN REGULATIONS

Oregon School Shooter Asks Victims If They Are Christians – Shoots Them In The Head If They Say Yes

SEE: http://the-trumpet-online.com/oregon-school-shooter-asks-victims-if-they-are-christians-shoots-them-in-the-head-if-they-say-yes/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Myspace Chris Harper-Mercer, 26 gunman in the Umpqua Community College in Oregon
Chris Harper-Mercer

A gunman singled out Christians for slaughter during a rampage at an Oregon college Thursday, leaving at least nine innocent people dead and several more wounded, survivors and authorities said.
“The shooter was lining people up and asking if they were Christian,” tweeted“@bodhilooney,” who said her grandmother was inside the Umpqua Community College classroom that was the scene of the carnage.
If they said yes, then they were shot in the head. If they said no, or didn’t answer, they were shot in the legs.”
Gunman Chris Harper-Mercer’s disdain for religion was evident in online profile, as the madman became a member of a “doesn’t like organized religion” group on an Internet dating site.
During the rampage, student Kort­ney Moore, 18, said she was attending Writing 115 class at the Roseburg college’s Snyder Hall when a bullet pierced a window, the southwestern Oregon city’s News-Review newspaper reported.
She saw her teacher get shot in the head and said the gunman asked people to state their religion before he opened fire.
Harper-Mercer, 26, was killed in a shootout with police outside one of the classrooms, said Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin.
“There was an exchange of gunfire,” he said. “The shooter threat was neutralized.
Although police put the death toll at 10 — including Harper-Mercer — with seven people injured, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum had said 13 people died.
In other developments:
  • The killer was carrying four guns — including three pistols and a rifle — during the attack, a source told CNN.
  •  An anonymous user wrote in an ominous post on the online bulletin board 4chan Wednesday night: “Some of you guys are alright. Don’t go to school tomorrow if you are in the northwest. happening thread will be posted tomorrow morning. so long space robots,” the post concluded.
Online profiles linked to Harper-Mercer showed that the deranged man had a fascination with terror tactics of the Irish Republican Party and bought Nazi memorabilia. He also wrote a blog post that mentioned Virginia shooter Vester Lee Flanagan, according to CBS news.
“Seems like the more people you kill, the more you’re in the limelight,” he wrote.
A former president of the college said that the school has only one unarmed security officer and that the community decided against armed guards last year.
“I suspect this is going to start a discussion across the country about how community colleges prepare themselves for events like this,” Joe Olson told CBS News.
President Obama issued a plea for greater gun control and bemoaned that America is “the only advanced country on Earth who sees these kind of mass shooting every few months.”
“Each time we see one of these mass shootings, our thoughts and prayers are not enough,” he said Thursday evening. “It’s not enough. It does not capture the heartache, the grief and anger we should feel, and it does nothing to prevent this carnage from being inflicted in America.”
This attacks brings the total number of mass shootings in the country to 294 this year, according to the Mass Shooting Tracker. The web site defines mass shootings as incidents in which four or more people are killed or injured by gunfire. Witnesses described a chaotic scene inside Snyder Hall.
People were scrambling “like ants” when the gunman opened fire at around 10:38 a.m., according to Brady Winder, a 23-year-old student from Portland.
“People [were] screaming, ‘Get out!’ ” he told The News-Review, adding he saw a girl frantically swimming across a creek to escape.
Student Hannah Miles was also sitting in a classroom next door when she heard a pop that sounded like a yardstick slapping on a chalkboard.
Everyone in her classroom fled as more gunfire erupted.
Student Brandy Winter posted on Facebook, “I ran to the edge of the campus, down a hill and waited. From talking with a student in the classroom where it happened, almost every person in the room was shot by a man with four guns.’’
Another student, Luke Rogers, said he saw blood in a classroom as he was evacuated from the building.
“As we passed by the classroom, on the ground there were drops of blood,” the first-year Umpqua student told CNN. “We didn’t see any bodies. We saw books on the ground.”
One witness told The New York Times that she heard gunshots coming from outside her classroom.
She said a middle-aged woman then tried to close the door and prevent the shooter from getting inside, but she was shot by several rounds in the stomach.
The gunman “was just out there, hanging outside the door,” Cassandra Welding told the Times “and she slumped over and I knew something wasn’t right. And they’re like, ‘She got shot, she got shot.’ And everyone is panicking.”
Douglas County Fire Marshal Ray Shoulfer said victims were found in “multiple classrooms,” according to CNN.
In a national address, Obama lamented that mass shootings have become routine in America.
“I hope and pray that I don’t have to come out again during my tenure as president to offer my condolences to families in these circumstances,” he said. “But based on my experience as president, I can’t guarantee that, and that’s terrible to say, and it can change.”
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13 Killed In Oregon Mass Murder Zone

IN 12 MINUTE SPEECH TO AMERICA ABOUT MASS SHOOTING, OBAMA REFERS TO HIMSELF 28 TIMES

‘Each time this happens, 
I am going to bring this up’
SEE: http://www.infowars.com/in-12-minute-speech-to-america-about-mass-shooting-obama-refers-to-himself-28-times/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Less than six hours after the mass shooting today in Roseburg, Ore., President Obama called a press conference to demand new gun laws, a move he predicted would spur critics to accuse him of politicizing the issue.
If they don’t accuse him of that, they might accuse him of making the tragedy about himself.
During today’s 12-minute address, President Obama referred to himself 28 times. (For those counting at home, that’s almost three times per minute.)
Note that in arriving at this calculation, we included mentions of “we” when he was clearly including himself as part of the plural pronoun; the many uses of “we” in referring to America at large were not included.

Obama Ignores Shootings
In Heavy Gun Restricted Chicago


Obama Exploits Anti-Christian Terrorism 

to Push Gun Control

BY ALEX NEWMAN
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:



Using deeply misleading rhetoric, Obama wasted no time in exploiting the tragic Oregon terrorist attack on Christian students, disarmed in yet another infamous “gun-free zone,” to push for even more unconstitutional restrictions on the rights of Americans to keep and bear arms. In a speech that was regurgitated by establishment media outlets across America, Obama claimed that the United States was “the only advanced country on Earth that sees these kinds of mass shootings every few months.” In the real world, if population size is taken into account, America is not even close to the top when considering the number of fatalities in mass shootings per capita — with multiple nations having ultra-strict gun control ranking far higher than the United States. Indeed, even among the three-dozen advanced OECD countries, America does not even rank in the top five, official data show.  



As has become typical, though, Obama did not even wait for the blood of the massacred victims to dry before shamelessly politicizing and exploiting the tragedy. In a 12-minute speech delivered less than six hours after the slaughter, Obama, mentioning himself more than two dozen times, said the American people's thoughts and prayers “are not enough.” “It does not capture the heartache and grief and anger that we should feel,” he said. “And it does nothing to prevent this carnage from being inflicted someplace else in America — next week, or a couple of months from now.” Meanwhile, Second Amendment activists have been making a far-more sensible argument, lambasting “gun-free zones” as magnets for mass-murderers that politicians cling to despite the well-documented deadly effects of disarming potential victims.



“We don't yet know why this individual did what he did,” Obama said, though he would have known that the murderer was motivated by anti-Christian hatred if he had waited for the facts before pitching more attacks on the rights of Americans. “And it's fair to say that anybody who does this has a sickness in their minds, regardless of what they think their motivations may be. But we are not the only country on Earth that has people with mental illnesses or want to do harm to other people. We are the only advanced country on Earth that sees these kinds of mass shootings every few months.” Perhaps still reeling from being called out about his last false statement on the subject, Obama appears to have added an additional caveat ("every few months"), but the claim was still extremely misleading.  



After a National Socialist murdered nine Christians at a church in South Carolina, Obama used even bolder falsehoods to push his narrative. “But let’s be clear: At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries,” he claimed, falsely, at the time. Of course, that was not just false — it was blatantly false. The statement came just months after mass-shootings in Paris massacred some 20 people with illegal AK-47s purchased easily on the black market. All of the victims were disarmed and defenseless thanks to strict French gun control. It also followed a massacre in Norway, another “advanced” nation with ultra-draconian infringements on the right to keep and bear arms, that left more than 70 children dead.



In fact, a brief look at the official data reveals that Obama's careful use of language was deliberately calculated to deceive gullible citizens. According to the Rampage Shooting Index, which used OECD data from 2009 to 2013, the United States was not even in the top five when it comes to rampage shooting fatalities per capita, or in fatal rampage shootings per capita. All five of the top nations' gun laws were classified as “restrictive,” while the United States was classified as permissive. In first place, by a huge margin, was Norway, which places extreme restrictions on firearms, at 15.3 fatalities per million citizens and 0.2 fatal shooting rampages per million citizens. By contrast, the United States, which was in sixth place out of three dozen nations, featured 0.72 fatalities per million citizens and 0.12 fatal shooting rampages per million citizens.



In second place on the index was Finland, followed by Slovakia, and then Israel — all three of which impose ultra-strict gun control. Indeed, if Europe is taken as a whole, and if non-firearms related mass-killings are taken into account, Americans are far safer from mass-murderers than Europeans. One key difference, though, is that Americans can generally defend themselves with guns if needed, while Europeans have largely been disarmed and left defenseless by their rulers. And if mass shootings in the United States committed in so-called gun-free zones were excluded from the total, America would have virtually none, making it among the safest places in the world. Even the United Kingdom, which bans gun ownership and was touted in Obama's latest speech, has mass-shootings, with one a few years ago claiming a dozen lives.



When compared with other nations that essentially ban private ownership of firearms, America is in fact an oasis of safety. Consider Honduras, for example, which has around 90 intentional homicides per 100,000 people annually, along with some of the strictest gun control on the planet. In Venezuela, where the United Nations helped the socialist regime disarm law-abiding citizens, there are more than 50 murders per 100,000 people. The United States, by contrast, has less than five per 100,000. Even Mexico, relatively advanced despite a near-total gun ban, has a murder rate that is around 500 percent higher than that of America. Similar trends can be observed around the world, and within the United States itself. Notably absent from Obama's anti-Second Amendment ramblings, for instance, was any  mention of the fact that murder rates in the United States have been plunging like a rock as guns in public continue to proliferate — with the most pro-gun states leading the way.      



Obama, though, who famously ridiculed and demonized Christians for bitterly clinging to their guns and religion, appears to be uninterested in facts. Indeed, despite having to brazenly twist the truth to launch attacks on the constitutionally protected rights he swore to uphold, Obama vowed to keep hammering away until Americans agree to surrender their liberties. “And each time this happens I'm going to bring this up,” he pledged after proudly boasting that he was politicizing a tragedy. “Each time this happens I am going to say that we can actually do something about it, but we're going to have to change our laws.” It was not immediately clear how Obama thought changing laws would prevent somebody willing to violate laws against murder from violating gun-control schemes.



But he vowed to keep politicizing tragedies until Americans submit to his agenda anyway. “And, of course, what’s also routine is that somebody, somewhere will comment and say, Obama politicized this issue,” he said in the speech. “Well, this is something we should politicize.” He also asked Americans to lobby in favor of more infringements on their own individual rights, calling for a “change of politics on this issue.” Congress, governors, and state legislatures should all jump on-board his anti-gun rights bandwagon, too, Obama insisted. In a stunning display of audacity, Obama even called on God to give Americans the “strength” and “courage” to accept “change” — specifically, more unconstitutional violations of their God-given rights.   



Responding to Obama's shameless exploitation of massacred Christians to push assaults on gun rights, though, the non-profit Gun Owners of America instead demanded an end to existing infringements on the right to keep and bear arms that demonstrably contribute to mass shootings. “This is a very tragic day, and all Americans are mourning with the residents of Oregon,” said GOA Director of Communications Erich Pratt in a statement. “But we find it offensive to hear the White House use a tragedy like this, and instantly turn it into a political opportunity. The President spoke to the nation today, saying it’s proper for him to politicize this tragedy. He called for more ‘common sense’ gun control, which is insane, given that the criminally-minded don't obey the law.”



Pointing to Obama's listing of previous massacres in his latest speech — all of which occurred in “gun-free zones,” or victim-disarmament zones, as critics call them — Pratt said enough was enough. “Mr. President, you just identified the problem,” he explained. “Every public mass shooting since 1950, except for two, has occurred in a Gun Free Zone. This shooting is no different. And that is why GOA agrees with the 86% of police who say that these types of incidents would be prevented if the potential victims were not disarmed.” Pratt said that, apparently, policymakers have not learned the lesson from a 2012 mass shooting in Oregon during which a gun owner put a stop to the rampage by violating a no-gun policy. “Let's repeal Gun Free Zones,” Pratt concluded.



Ironically, perhaps, Obama's constant exploitation of tragedy and his predictable attacks on the Second Amendment appear to be having the opposite effect in the public consciousness. Consider a recent Rasmussen poll revealing that just one third of Americans even support any federal gun-control to begin with, a drastic decline from late last year. Support for gun rights, the number of guns, and opposition to gun control are soaring all across America and across all demographics. As more and more victims are massacred in areas where those victims have been forcibly left defenseless by politicians, whether it be in Europe or in domestic “gun-free zones,” those trends are likely to accelerate — regardless of Obama's deceptive deception on the issue.



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Oregon Shooter Sought Christians to Kill



BY BOB ADELMANN



SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/21689-oregon-shooter-sought-christians-to-kill; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:









“Oregon Shooting: Umpqua Community College Gunman Talked Religion,” NBC News claims in the headline for a story about Thursday's shooting in Roseburg, Oregon. Of course the headline is misleading, to say the least. The gunman, 26-year-old Chris Harper-Mercer, didn’t bring a Bible to Umpqua Community College; he brought three handguns and a semi-automatic rifle. He didn’t talk about his religious beliefs; he asked who was Christian and shot in the head those who said they were while shooting others in the legs. Yet, if the only thing we knew about the tragic event was the NBC News headline, we could be forgiven for concluding that the gunman was a religous zealot as opposed to an anti-Christian hater.



As reported by numerous survivors of the murderous rampage, Harper-Mercer sought out Christians in order to murder them. Bodhi Looney, the grandson of a woman who escaped injury in the mayhem but who witnessed the shooter barking orders to his unarmed victims, relayed what she saw on his Twitter account:



The shooter was lining up people and asking if they were Christian. If they said yes, then there were shot in the head. If they said no, or didn’t answer, they were shot in the legs.



Stacy Boylan, the father of a student who was wounded in the attack, told reporters what she saw:



He shot the professor, point blank, one shot, killed him — took him right out of it.



And then, this man … start[ed] asking people, one by one, what their religion was. “Are you a Christian?” he would ask them. And “If you’re a Christian, stand up!”



And they would stand up, and he said: “Good, because you’re a Christian, you’re going to see God in just about one second.”



And then he shot and killed them.



On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold sought out, attacked and murdered Christians at Columbine High School, near Denver, Colorado. Cassie Bernall was reading in the library when one of the murderers pointed his gun at her and asked if she believed in God. She replied, “Yes, I believe in God.” The shooter asked her “Why?” and then, before she could answer, he shot her dead.



Rachel Scott, a Columbine student whose ambition was to become a missionary to Africa, along with student John Tomlin who had just returned from a missionary trip to Mexico on a church project, were also targeted by the shooters for their faith, and were murdered.



On the Sunday before she was murdered, Bernall wrote these words in her diary:



Now I have given up on everything else. I have found it to be the only way to really know Christ and to experience the mighty power that brought Him back to life again and to find out what it means to suffer and to die with Him.



So, whatever it takes, I will be one who lives in the fresh newness of life of those who are alive from the dead.



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Oregon School Shooting: 



Another "Gun Free Zone" Tragedy





BY BOB ADELMANN




in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:









Preliminary information is that on the morning of Thursday, October 1, a shooter at Roseburg, Oregon's Umpqua Community College murdered at least 10 people, and more than 20 others were wounded, several seriously. The shooter reportedly died in a shootout with police. 



It’s known that the school is a “gun free zone,” with this posted on the college’s website:



Possession, use, or threatened use of firearms (including but not limited to BB guns, air guns, water pistols, and paint guns) ammunition, explosives, dangerous chemicals, or any other objects as weapons on college property, except as expressly authorized by law or college regulations, is prohibited.



Possession of knives with a blade longer than 4” is prohibited.



Brandishing weapons is prohibited.



Misuse of personal defensive weapons — e.g., pepper spray, etc. is prohibited. The owner is responsible and accountable for any misuse of these devices.



It should be noted that, in addition to declaring itself a “gun-free zone” — turning the 3,300-student campus into what nationally respected Second Amendment author and firearms trainer Massad Ayooba called a “hunting preserve for psychopaths” — the school had but a single security officer patrolling the campus, and he was unarmed.



Yet, despite the fact that a shooter again hit a location that advertises the lack of the ability of people there to defend themselves, anti-gunners soon began using the massacre as a platform to blame guns, instead of the shooter. Jenna Yuille, whose mother was killed in the Clackamas Town Center shooting in Portland, Oregon, in December 2012, is such a gun control advocate and a fellow at the Everytown Survivor Network. She released the following statement after the shooting at Umpqua Community College:



Once again here in Oregon, our community has been torn apart by a tragic and senseless act of gun violence. My thoughts are with the students, faculty and families of those killed and injured at Umpqua Community College today. What they are going through and feeling right now is all too familiar to me. While we still have much to learn about the details surrounding this horrific act, it is clear we cannot, as a nation, sit idly by without taking meaningful action to end gun violence in America.



The New American will publish more about the tragedy as details emerge.



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Oregon Shooter Had Firearms 



Despite State’s Latest Gun Law



BY BOB ADELMANN





republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:





When Eugene, Oregon’s Mayor Kitty Piercy announced that Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety would be spending tens of thousands of dollars on television ads to urge Oregonians to comply with the new background check law that became effective on August 9, she said, “Background checks are good for public safety. Closing this loophole makes it harder for criminals to get guns.”



Tell that to the families of victims at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg. The shooter, whose name appears elsewhere on the media, brought with him three handguns and a semi-automatic rifle to the college on Thursday morning and, unimpeded by victims who had been disarmed by college rules, took his time to shoot upwards of 20 students — at least 10 people are reported dead. Like sheep, the student/targets just held their breaths while the shooter calmly reloaded and continued his rampage. A few narrowly escaped during the melee, allowing observers to learn of the attack in its gory and horrific details.



The new law now requires background checks between private individuals in the state, not just from gun dealers or at gun shows. Those checks are intended to flag felons and individuals with a history of severe mental illness.



The shooter was among five students listed in the 2009 graduating class at Switzer Learning Center, a school that focuses on students with emotional disturbances, autism spectrum disorders, and behavioral problems. Evidence continues to surface showing that the shooter had anti-social and anti-organized religion tendencies and a distinctly dour outlook on the world.



Nevertheless, the shooter was able to obtain three handguns and a semi-automatic rifle to terrorize and kill those students. Where would any law have prevented him from obtaining those weapons?



As noted by NBC News, “It is not clear where or when the shooter in Thursday’s attack obtained his weapon or whether the new law would have had any impact. Gun control advocates said the new measure would prevent criminals and the mentally ill from buying guns.”



A Justice Department survey of more than 18,000 state and federal convicts is helpful in answering that question:



 • 39.6 percent of criminals obtained a gun from a friend or family member



• 39.2 percent of criminals obtained a gun on the street or from an illegal source



• 0.7 percent of criminals purchased a gun at a gun show



• 1 percent of criminals purchased a gun at a flea market



• 3.8 percent of criminals purchased a gun from a pawn shop



• 8.3 percent of criminals actually bought their guns from retail outlets



In other words, almost four out of five firearms obtained by those convicts were obtained outside the reach of the new law, or any gun control law, for that matter.



For answers to neutralizing deranged shooters like the one who terrorized Umpqua Community College on Thursday, one must look elsewhere. 



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What You Won't Hear About the Oregon Shooting;
Obama Ignores Chicago Shootings; 
Never Called For Religious Tolerance

Published on Oct 3, 2015





Before he spoke, officials confirmed that the shooter targeted his victims based on their religion, yet the president never called for religious tolerance.


Oregon Shooter Identified
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic...
....asked about religion
http://www.infowars.com/reports-ucc-s...
...Obama silent on Chicago's weekly mass shootings
http://www.infowars.com/selective-out...
...prevented from assisting
http://www.infowars.com/armed-air-for...
....lockdown procedures were a deathtrap
http://www.infowars.com/former-securi... he spoke, officials confirmed that the shooter targeted his victims based on their religion, yet the president never called for religious tolerance.


Oregon Shooter Identified
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic...
....asked about religion
http://www.infowars.com/reports-ucc-s...
...Obama silent on Chicago's weekly mass shootings
http://www.infowars.com/selective-out...
...prevented from assisting
http://www.infowars.com/armed-air-for...
....lockdown procedures were a deathtrap
http://www.infowars.com/former-securi...





















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