Oregon Shooting Sheriff Wants ‘Opportunity to Heal’ Before He Goes Back To Enabling Gun Violence
On Thursday morning, our nation suffered the latest in a never-ending series of mass shooting tragedies when 26 year-old Chris Harper Mercer opened fire at the Umpqua Community College campus in Roseburg, Oregon, killing 10 and injuring 7. As is usually the case with these (now routine) stories, details of the shootings themselves are much more sparse than those about the killer, who left an extensive online footprint.
President Obama took to the podium of the Brady Briefing Room one more time Thursday night, and delivered yet another frustrated statement on a mass shooting. This one had an even angrier edge than usual:
And, of course, what’s also routine is that somebody, somewhere will comment and say, Obama politicized this issue. Well, this is something we should politicize. It is relevant to our common life together, to the body politic. I would ask news organizations — because I won’t put these facts forward — have news organizations tally up the number of Americans who’ve been killed through terrorist attacks over the last decade and the number of Americans who’ve been killed by gun violence, and post those side-by-side on your news reports. This won’t be information coming from me; it will be coming from you. We spend over a trillion dollars, and pass countless laws, and devote entire agencies to preventing terrorist attacks on our soil, and rightfully so. And yet, we have a Congress that explicitly blocks us from even collecting data on how we could potentially reduce gun deaths. How can that be?
We also have sheriffs and others who, like gun-nut Kim Davises, refuse to enforce federal gun laws that they, themselves, see as violating the 2nd amendment. Among them is Sheriff John Hanlin, whose office is handling the investigation. Hanlin was interviewed by CNN’s Chris Cuomo Friday morning, and tried his best not to engage in any discussion of gun policy because he wanted to “give the community an opportunity to heal,” but a dogged Cuomo finally got him to admit…READ MORE
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By: Tommy Christopher
Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
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rg9rts October 2nd, 2015 at 17:26
This imbecile is now an INTERNATIONAL A$$HOLE and wants what??
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majii October 2nd, 2015 at 22:57
Hanlin had no idea that his stupidity and lack of leadership as a law enforcement officer would become widely known. At the time he was shooting off his mouth about resisting any new laws and/or executive orders aimed at curbing gun violence, he was posturing for his local constituency, but now that people have died on a college campus in his jurisdiction, he not so vocal about his pro-gun views. Weaselly coward. He had the perfect opportunity on CNN this morning to share how much he loves guns and how he plans to disobey gun laws, but he didn’t take it. He wimped out and kept talking about how he’s “focused” on investigating these acts of terrorism. He even removed the Sandy Hook truther mess off his Facebook wall, which tells me that he’s probably feeling like a fool right about now for taking the position that SH was a “staged” event. I hope he has many sleepless nights and is haunted by seeing the faces of those who died at UCC yesterday under his watch.
whatthe46 October 2nd, 2015 at 23:13
wait a sec. he was a SH truther? no crap? so, why should this be any different? how would he feel if those same truthers started up a rant that this wasn’t real either? he is a true coward.
whatthe46 October 3rd, 2015 at 03:26
it’s amazing that this fk’n idiot is still not willing to concede that he was wrong then and still is wrong today because, what? he just spat on the graves of the victims and spat in the faces of the victims families. his racism is so strong and imbeded, that he would rather see another mass murder, even in his own city and state, than to do the right thing. that’s some seriously messed up thinking.
maggie October 30th, 2015 at 01:13
completely agree…you know that shooting happened on a thursday..and there was a gun show (first of 3 planned) for that saturday…which they continued with I think..and apparently the gun shop owner who sold weapons to Mercer…really made a mint after the massacre from customers who stampeded to his door….disgusting,….
whatthe46 October 30th, 2015 at 09:12
that is disgusting.
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jybarz October 4th, 2015 at 20:25
First class A$$HOLE.
Like Kim Davis, he should resign his job for not doing his duty, paid for and expected to do.
maggie October 30th, 2015 at 01:10
thank-your liberaland for that link to the wire…I assure you these are not the only sheriff’s against gun control by a long shot…;(