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Last week while delivering an angry call for action on gun control, President Obama said he had once visited the town of Roseburg, Ore., the site of Americas latest mass shooting.
Ive been to Roseburg, Obama said at the White House, hours after nine people were killed and seven others wounded by a heavily armed gunman at Umpqua Community College. There are really good people there. The president is scheduled to travel to Roseburg on Friday.
Nearly 50 years ago, on the eve of the 1968 Oregon Democratic primary, New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy delivered a campaign speech in Roseburg calling for stricter gun control measures.
With all the violence and murder and killings weve had in the United States, Kennedy said, I think you will agree that we must keep firearms from people who have no business with guns or rifles.
https://www.yahoo.com/politics/watch-rfk-deliver-speech-on-gun-control-in-183517568.html
Video at the link...I am unable to embed.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)It's depressing that nothing's changed.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Eerie that he gave the speech in Roseburg.