Preliminary information indicates 10 people were killed and more than 20 others injured in a shooting at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College in Oregon on Thursday morning, said Oregon State Police spokesman Bill Fugate. The reports indicate that the shooter has been detained, Fugate said.
This is yet another breaking story. Will update as more information becomes available.
Update: There are reports that the shooter may have posted his intentions on social media last night.
It also appears the President has been briefed.
White House says President Obama has been briefed on #UCCShooting. He has requested updates through the day from Homeland Security.
— John Tierney (@jtierney6) October 1, 2015
How many times has our President had to address a senseless mass shooting like this now?I think this makes it fifteen.
Update 2: MSNBC is now reporting the number killed at thirteen.
Update 3: Just learned that the gunman is also deceased.
Update 4: The shooter's name was Chris Harper Mercer, he was a 26 year old student at the college.
He is of course deceased.
Did $arah put some target signs on them?
ReplyDeleteSarah is busy putting surveyor marks on the Texas clock kid
Delete11:07, this is NOT funny. Leave that dumb bitch out of this. This is far greater than Sarah Palin and you need to grow up. Ten people are dead.
Delete@anon 11:24am
DeleteSarah Palin was responsible for that shooting in which Gabby Giffords was injured, others were wounded, and yes, some even dead including a child.
So no, this IS the time for everyone to bring up every mass shooting.
U Betcha. She's the rill dill when it comes to sharp shooting. She's been victimized by her snarky wit, her botoxed ageless beauty her ability to quit in the middle of her term. She is the leader of the survey crew that targets and maps out a new world order. She is the mother of all mothers protecting the fetuses kicking to be free. She is the inspiration to all teenage girls that don't want a higher education and just love the smell of a stinky diaper in the morning. She's the little blue pill for all the old guys that want her to empower them. Her hero had a wooden leg or something like that.
Delete11:07 You brought Sarah into this convo,,,,guns don't kill students at JUCO, But the NRA etc allow weapons in the hands of people that do.
12:04pm I have worked at NASA with Mark Kelly, Gabby's husband. I don't need you to lecture me about shootings. Both of them are amazing people as are/were the Oregon shooting victims. I care about THEM, not a nobody like Sarah Palin.
DeleteI don't need you to lecture me about shootings.
DeleteHow is s/he supposed to know who you are when you don't even (consistently) use a handle? If you don't like being lectured as if you were a nobody, then don't be a nobody. It's that simple. Well, no, it's not that simple, but it's a start. Think about it.
Mind yr own beeswax ted powell
DeleteA three minute video history, 2nd Amendment gun 'enthusiasts' and it most likely means. Clip from Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore documentary (c. 15 years ago)
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGYFRzf2Xww
dowl
Piss off Ted.
DeleteTed ,Sarah's boots are dirty.
Delete12:04, Jared Loughner, a paranoid schizophrenic who was obsessed with Gifford's, is the responsible party for that particular shooting. If we were lucky enough for Sarah Palin to be killed by some mentally ill but, is Gryphen or any of her other haters responsible?
DeleteI hate Sarah Palin with a passion, but I also know right from wrong. Am I responsible for someone else trying to kill her?
Learn to pick your battles wisely.
Anonymous 2:21 PM wrote: Ted ,Sarah's boots are dirty.
DeleteReally, I've no interest in how this person—whom we will probably never (recognizably) hear from again—found out, nor in what he or she might be planning to do about it. :-)
With SP and Kim K and " the Donald" leading..
ReplyDeletehttp://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/09/girls-make-ever-growing-proportion-kids-juvenile-justice-system
13 dead, 20 more injured.
ReplyDeleteBut we will do nothing once again. If no one cared when a grade school was attacked, no one will care when it's adults.
Exactly.
DeleteMass shootings in the U.S. have become more or less routine now; almost expected. Crazy.
DeleteThere are a couple of ex-military commentators on CNN blaming the school for the shooting since it is a gun free zone? Jesus Christ! You can't wait for the bodies to get cold before you start spewing the NRA party line? Hello assholes! A good guy with a gun intervened in a truck jacking in Texas and shot the truck owner. Give everyone guns. That will work. And if I come around the corner and see someone shooting someone else, I will shoot them. Even though the person I see shooting could b a plain clothes cop taking down an armed suspect.
DeleteThat's right when the NRA instructed the gotp to screech about their constituency's right to bear arms it was obvious nothing would ever be done about the gun violence in this country.I suppose it will take a bunch of republican kids blown away at summer camp for those fools to even think about a solution.
DeleteYoure right, it will take a bunch of fundy Republican kids to be taken out before anything is done. Until that happens, the GOP just collectively says that it isnt their problem.
DeleteFact. The Oregon State Police have an office within 1/2 mile from the center of the college. So tell me again how a lack of security could let this happen.
DeleteHow about the county sheriff who made it his job to lobby against a background check bill that DID pass. Name is John Hanlin. The same ass
wipe that refused to reissue concealed handgun permits to medical marijuana card holders. He had his ass handed to him by the courts but only after wasting tons of county money for a baseless personal cause.
Also, this is the same county that wanted to recall a legislator because he voted for the new background check law.
Now the county can be just so proud.
I wish we could have a civilized country. Of course, having a civilized country would mean we would (among other things) radically restrict gun ownership and radically reduce the number of guns. That way, a incident of rage wouldn't leave dozens of people dead or injured.
ReplyDeleteI heard also that the shooter posted on something called 4-chan? And that he was getting all kinds of encouragement from other anon posters. This is so sad. I can't imagine we've become so vile as a society.
ReplyDeleteMildred
Why? Because the rich white men who have ruled this nation for 200 years see their power slipping away. So they are instilling the idiots with fear and loathing, just like Hitler did in Germany. They think they are clever by supporting Bibi and therefore, Jews. In reality, they despise and distrust anyone not exactly like them,including Jews and the Pope. So when Obama won, they were beyond shocked. They were shaking in their boots, thus the secret meeting to agree NOT to support a damn thing, blame everything on him, and make up as many lies as their base will swallow, which is a lot. Meanwhile, the NRA capitalizes on the fear and hate by making sure there are NO gun laws passed, and that everyone is afraid of their neighbor and suddenly needs 'protection' from our own government.Now they are using the police against our sanity as well. They have convinced them that everyone they look at hates them, has a gun, and will kill them if they don't kill first. So we have our own SS going on. I do not know what is going to turn us around. It is very very sad.
DeleteExactly.
DeleteNot sure I've ever read anything more ridiculous than your post 12:27. That is amazingly ridiculous.
DeleteThe irony is you talking about 'instilling fear and loathing' and capitalizing on' fear and hate'... have you read your own paranoid post?
2:10, you're a fucking idiot or a palin, oh wait, a palin is a fucking idiot, silly me.
DeleteGodwin's law 2:41.
DeleteYes 12:27 was a stupid and juvenile post, and the irony is thick.
Shut up 2:10. It's not paranoia it's an observation. There's a difference between pointing out "fear and loathing" and fomenting it.
DeleteLearn a little history. Then you might be able to understand to what 12:27 is referring. The very symptoms of discord that led up to the atrocities in the late 1930's were hate, fear and blame of the "other." Tell me you don't see that insidious illness creeping into our society?
Also read up about Ronnie Raygun and you will learn how he stripped away the foundations of mental health care in America and how it's led to this sad "perfect storm" of fear, ignorance and the disturbed acting out in the worst possible way.
And the blame lies square on the shoulders of the GOP who will not pass any gun legislation because they are beholden to the likes of the NRA and Grover Norquist.
Godwin's law AGAIN 3:04.
DeleteYou, are a MORON.
Jumped in my bosses car to grab lunch and he had talk radio on, a man from that area was going on and on about how everybody owns a gun there and they hate the lifestyle of Portland. He said the only reason something like this happened was because people are so frustrated with Obama, Biden and the Governor....how the flip can they put this on Obama??!!
ReplyDeleteThat's what they do. It's nonsensical.
DeleteThe same way they blame Obama for the failed response to Katrina.
DeleteIn December 2012, it was Sandy Hook School's 20 children and 6 adult staff members. Not quite 3 years, obviously way too early to discuss gun control.
ReplyDeleteThe parents of those little kids must suffer terribly on days like this.
You are so right 12:34...I feel like it just revictimizes those folks every time things like this happen.
DeleteAnd just like Sandy Hook I can guarantee you that there will be a group of conspiracy theorists that will claim this was a hoax and all part of the effort by Obama to eventually confiscate guns. Give it a month and Alex Jones will be doing stories on the 'false flag'.
DeleteSheesh
The sheriff that's dealing with this massacre fought the White House on gun control.
Deletehttp://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/10/oregon-sheriff-umpqua-massacre-white-house-gun-control-newtown
Armed anti-Muslim activists planning 20 rallies at mosques and community centers across the US
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/armed-anti-muslim-activists-planning-20-rallies-at-mosques-and-community-centers-across-the-us/
Oh, cheez whiz. Nothing like stirring up trouble.
DeleteBTW I have family living in Roseburg so I am following this story.
Less than 90 minutes after Oregon shooting, CNN analyst suggests school’s ‘gun free zone’ to blame
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/less-than-90-minutes-after-oregon-shooting-cnn-analyst-suggests-schools-gun-free-zone-to-blame/
Every brainless republican tool knows that a fully armed student body and faculty would have prevented this tragedy.
DeleteAfter UCC Shooting, White House Points Finger At Congress For Abandoning Gun Control
ReplyDeletehttp://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/10/01/3708220/white-house-ucc-shooting-statement/
Out of all places to go kill students he chooses the two science labs.
ReplyDeleteWe will never know the great minds that may have been taken out through the years due to violence.
Right? The better places to kill people might be like a Sociology class or something.
DeleteA community college science program is commendable but not cranking out rocket scientists.
DeleteI doesn't matter what building the tragedy occurred in.
Speaking of killing stuff:
ReplyDeleteUtah Congressman Vows To Kill America’s Top Parks Program
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/09/29/3706756/rob-bishop-lwcf-reauthorization/
Well, guess what?! This will become more every-day type of situation now that the NRA has been able to get their wishes that guns be allowed on college campuses - as well as in churches, and even in bars!
ReplyDeleteThat said: I am very, VERY glad that the shooter is dead, too. Otherwise he probably would have been paroled sooner rather than later (and maybe even had been treated by the cops like that Roof guy who shot and killed those (black) parishioners he was praying with - the guy who was 'hungry' and got treated to a Burger King meal before being booked...)
It is now being reported that the shooter made his victims stand up and state their religion. Many of them were shot before they could even get the words out.
ReplyDeleteUnsupported reports are that it was a white boy going Muslim hunting.
Republicans: Now is not the time to talk about this. We should only pray for the victims........Aren't we still wziting to talk about the last mass shooting/gun massacre?
ReplyDeleteSigh..here we go again..the gun humpers will whine and fret about this being a plot to take away their guns then same old fights on the comment boards; nothing will change this time either.
ReplyDeletefrom the pond:
Deletechzn2bfree • 2 hours ago
Umpqua in English means "Thundering waters"
Um Qua in Arabic means "People of Qua'ran" (?)
I can see only two ways for sane gun control laws to come into effect.
ReplyDeleteFirst, there are at least three men who have recently shot their own dicks off or lodged bullets in their scrotum. There are probably many many more. Testimony in Congress *with graphic pictures and x-rays* ought to dispell the idea that guns are for self-defense, and help restrict concealed-carry permits to owners who can pass a basic test.
It would be great if the self-castrators were of the same age/economic class as male congress-critters, but I suspect that, being male, they'll identify readily enough once their own gonads have crawled up into the body politic. These guys think so highly of their dicks that they email pictures to all and sundry (Weiner), they compare them in the locker room (G H W Bush is dinky, and his son used both socks for padding), they get photographed wet and clingy and post it online (Schock)... yeah, they regard their masculinity to the exclusion of common sense. A threat to it is more REAL than religious or economic terrorism.
Either they'll restrict ownership or someone will make a killing selling bullet-proof cod-pieces. I hope they chafe until saner laws are enacted.
The second route is what popularized gun control in the first place. Black Panthers and other such groups frightened white law-makers just standing around obviously armed and assertive. Given the militarized police and too many of them on steroids, I fret that this concept would lead to civil war in the streets. There are too many oath-keeping assholes desperate for a chance to shoot someone. What worked in the sixties might not work now.
Hmmmm.... another thought. The opposite approach.
Congress-critters work within a gun-free zone of safety. THEY don't have to fret about too many guns in the hands of too many nutters. So, how about lifting those restrictions? Check people for bombs and explosives, but let them carry all the weaponry they want. We get exposed to swaggering gun-nuts while getting a hamburger or going to the hardware store, congress-critters ought to feel just as vulnerable.
Equal protections under the laws.
I like your last idea, hauksdottir.
Deletehauksdottir, Umpqua college is a gun free zone. Oregon passed a universal background check law thaat took effect in Aug. The reality is, Congress (and the White House) aren't really gun free zones. They are guarded by heavily armed security agents. And people who enter are screened. That is why there have been no attacks inside the Congressional Halls or inside the White House. That makes the narrative of a "gun free zone" keeping Congress safe look silly.
DeleteAnti gunners don't want armed guards in schools. They want to believe that anti gun laws will keep people safe. It wont happen that way. Every mass shooting has happened in gun free zones that aren't guarded by people with means to take out an active shooter, including the Ft Hood killings of US servicemen. They just prove that if you have to wait for local law enforcement to show up and respond, it will be too late. Laws don't protect you. They just make it possible to prosecute the violator after the fact.
If you feel that laws can protect you and your family and no one will violate them, feel free. Myself, I'm not so trusting.
As if some of our fellow citizens aren't wacko enough with these school shootings, just wait till we have refugees arriving, the hate will ramp up exponentially. The ignorance is spellbinding.
ReplyDeleteslpence • 3 hours ago
I just read that in Germany they are starting to force people out of their homes/apartments in order to make room for the invaders! Frightening
That is a lie! .The only place you could have read that tripe is in a hate-monger type screed a la breitbart/fox ect.
DeleteEnglish-Arabic translation for "um"
ReplyDelete"UM" ARABIC TRANSLATION Results: 1-1 of 1
um {interjection}
um {interj.}
English-Arabic translation for "qua"
"QUA" ARABIC TRANSLATION Results: 1-1 of 1
qua {adverb}
qua {adv.} (also: solely, just, merely)
No
The Umpqua are any of several distinct groups of Native Americans that live in present-day south central Oregon in the United States. (wiki)
DeleteJust watched President Obama's speech.
ReplyDeleteWell stated as always.
If you have the stomach you should read this thread....there was tons of people cheering him on. One person told him last night to make sure to get them all in a corner and blow them away....
ReplyDeletehttps://archive.moe/r9k/thread/22785073/
This was all over being shunned by women.
Apparently this is the guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWQZ-4Wblqg
You mean that if some guy makes a pass at me, I'm not obligated to go out with him? Who knew?
Delete/S
Your YouTube link is not the shooter, it's just some guy 4channers wanted to harrass, don't believe everything you read, especially when the source is 4chan
Deletehttps://mobile.twitter.com/Tom_Winter/status/649717090639867904
Tonight all the gun humpers will dream of how they took out the shooter in a hail of bullets and then were interviewed by awed reporters as they say "aw shucks 'twas nothing" and modestly adjust their enormous penis which every viewer envies (males) or yearns for (females).
ReplyDeleteThat is soo correct. Sadly.
DeleteSarah Palin doesn't have to worry that her kids were shot
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin doesn't have any kids in college
Harsh, but true.
DeleteNo one who is a true progressive and liberal would make every single story that appears on this website about SP and her daughter BP. Not a speck difference between that behavior and the cons who blame Obama for everything. .
ReplyDeleteA little glance to the right and one would see that 'every single story' is well catalogued and it's a flat out lie what you just posted TC, you online digital personality.
DeleteWhat I suspect is that you know nothing of what it is to be a 'true progressive and liberal' because purity tests don't exist on the left like they do on the right. There are many expressions of those loose descriptions of one's political leaning, so you bust yourself as a right winger, just by how you express yourself.
And any 'true liberal' sees that a mile away.
TC, this site provides a service for the safety of the American public. $arah is evil.
Delete41st school shooting since the beginning of this school year per NBC
ReplyDeleteNo surprise, but on an online dating app, the shooter identified himself as a conservative republican.
ReplyDeleteand fox et.al are pretending he was shooting Christina...these people will never stop lying
Deletethe mayor of this town was just on Tamron Hall's show. In response to her asking about the Sheriff's letter to Joe Biden, he blamed the media for inflaming the public by talking about the shooters.
ReplyDeleteMake people who knowing provide access to guns by people who know they have a history of mental illness responsible bia lawsuits.
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IMO, the way to begin ending these tragedies is to sue the NRA out of business. Anyone affected by mass shootings should join a class action lawsuit against them.
ReplyDeleteWithout the NRA, maybe some real gun control legislation could be enacted.
My theory is that since there is longstanding evidence Chris was not a religious fanatic, Christianity really was not his motivator. I believe he just decided to come up with the best reason to draw attention to his act. He even blogged along those lines in the past.
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