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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 weeks mass shooting, hell 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 Obamas 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 Obamas 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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still_one
(91,980 posts)malaise
(267,864 posts)said only hundreds have shown up - Obama just landed
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)which is what their mission was all along...
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)When there are two more shootings at schools during your protest that you need your gun, at weakens your arguments severely.
Iggo
(47,493 posts)Apologies.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)I'm pretty sure that the answer is zero.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)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.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)countingbluecars
(4,766 posts)about the grieving families. Such idiots.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)And yet there are idiots and half-wits wondering why I don't concern myself with alienating gun owners...