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Report: Oregon shooter targeted Christians, railed against 'organized religion'



Details are still emerging, and it's impossible to make absolute statements at this point. But based on the statements of at least one eyewitness and some of the investigators on the case, Oregon shooter Christopher Harper Mercer not only railed against "organized religion" in his writings, but demanded that his victims state their religions before he opened fire. Fox News:
The gunman in Thursday's mass shooting at an Oregon community college specifically targeted Christians, three witnesses said, while online accounts linked to the shooter expressed disdain for organized religion. Authorities say Christopher Harper Mercer killed at least nine people and wounded at least seven others at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg before he was killed in an exchange of gunfire with police. Investigators have shed very little light publicly on Mercer's possible motive for the shooting. However, reports indicated they were examining Mercer's online presence very closely. One law enforcement official described Mercer to The New York Times as appearing to be "an angry young man who was very filled with hate." Another official said investigators were poring over what he described as "hateful"writings by Mercer. Oregon's top federal prosecutor told The Oregonian newspaper that authorities had heard rumors that the gunman had issued "some sort of race-related manifesto" before the shooting. Kortney Moore, 18, told the Roseburg News-Review that she was in a Writing 115 class when one shot came through the window. Moore said she saw her teacher get shot in the head. The shooter then reportedly told the students to get on the ground before asking people to stand up and state their religion. He then began firing. Moore said she was lying on the ground with people who had been shot.
Like I said, there's too little we know for sure to make grand, definitive statements about the cause and what we need to take away from this horrible event. As much as I sort of want to, it would be irresponsible at this point to link it to all the anti-Christian venom that's been spewed so freely in the popular culture as late.

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Obama pimping the gun control agenda yet again

Then again, the whole too-little-too-soon thing isn't stopping our president from jumping on the crime to push his personal agenda. Obama's mallet-hits-knee reaction to every shooting is exactly the same. It's not just a rant about gun control, but an indignant, self-righteous one that paints everyone who doesn't back his gun agenda as a virtual co-perpetrator in the murders. Obama is not very good at the whole consoler-in-chief thing. The tone in his voice right from the start betrays that he's just flat-out pissed, and not at the shooter. He's not even two minutes in before he's pimping the gun control agenda yet again. In fact, he even goes so far as to predict future mass shootings and lay it at the feet of anyone who doesn't think gun control is the answer, while more-or-less excusing the shooter himself as having a "sickness." He even goes so far as to minimize the threat of terrorism, instructing his media servants to tally up the number of people killed in gun attacks compared with those killed in terror attacks, so that "that's not coming from me, it's coming from you." How long do you think it will take them to do their duty? The king has issued a decree. And since he's issuing decrees, perhaps he could suggest people back off the anti-Christian rhetoric, but then he'd have to lead by example and I doubt he's interested in doing that. He'd rather stand there and claim incredibly that the United States lacks "any modest regulation" of gun ownership. And he ends with a flat-out call to voters to elect gun-control politicians - all of this dutifully carried live by the media. And he promises: "Each time this happens, I'm going to bring this up." Wonderful. As if the shootings and the deaths weren't horrible enough.


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