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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Fri Oct 9, 2015, 02:37 PM Oct 2015

Protests Planned as Obama Visits Oregon Shooting Victims

By Toluse Olorunnipa
October 9, 2015 — 11:52 AM EDT

* More than 8,000 sign up on Facebook to attend anti-Obama rally
* President focused on consoling families, White House aides say

As President Barack Obama travels to Roseburg, Oregon, on Friday to console family members of victims of last week’s mass shooting, he’ll seek to steer clear of the debate over gun laws.

It may be too late.

After Obama called firearms violence “something we should politicize” after the shooting that killed nine at Umpqua Community College, gun-rights advocates pledged to greet the president with protests. More than 8,000 signed up to attend a rally protesting Obama’s visit, according to a Facebook event page titled “Defend Roseburg -- Deny Barack Obama.”

Obama will meet privately with relatives of the victims in Roseburg and has no public events planned. Residents concerned that Obama’s visit may bring unwanted politics to a grieving town “have nothing to fear,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Wednesday.

“The president has made clear that the goal of his visit is to spend time with the families of those who are so deeply affected by this terrible tragedy,” Earnest said.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-09/protests-planned-as-obama-visits-oregon-shooting-victims?module=TopNews&position=5_headline

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Protests Planned as Obama Visits Oregon Shooting Victims (Original Post) Purveyor Oct 2015 OP
What a bunch of sickos still_one Oct 2015 #1
The report I heard on M$NBComcast a few minutes ago malaise Oct 2015 #2
But I have NO doubt they'll get some media airtime Blue_Tires Oct 2015 #8
A great way to show that you don't need new gun laws....stop shooting people NightWatcher Oct 2015 #3
Whoops! Wrong thread. Iggo Oct 2015 #4
And another point. How many guns has Obama grabbed up? NightWatcher Oct 2015 #5
I'm sure this assembly of RW asshats will sharp_stick Oct 2015 #6
Yeah, I knew this was coming... Blue_Tires Oct 2015 #7
Those gun nuts could care less countingbluecars Oct 2015 #9
And yet there are idiots wondering... LanternWaste Oct 2015 #10

malaise

(267,864 posts)
2. The report I heard on M$NBComcast a few minutes ago
Fri Oct 9, 2015, 02:47 PM
Oct 2015

said only hundreds have shown up - Obama just landed

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
3. A great way to show that you don't need new gun laws....stop shooting people
Fri Oct 9, 2015, 02:50 PM
Oct 2015

When there are two more shootings at schools during your protest that you need your gun, at weakens your arguments severely.

sharp_stick

(14,400 posts)
6. I'm sure this assembly of RW asshats will
Fri Oct 9, 2015, 03:04 PM
Oct 2015

be just as successful as their recent endeavors like:

Jade Helm
2 Million Bikers To DC
Million Trucker Protest

If they had to pony up $20 to be put on the I'll be there list the number of Facebook attendees might be within an order of magnitude of the number of morons that actually show up but that would be about it.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
10. And yet there are idiots wondering...
Fri Oct 9, 2015, 04:45 PM
Oct 2015

And yet there are idiots and half-wits wondering why I don't concern myself with alienating gun owners...

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