Christopher Harper-Mercer, 26, who moved to Oregon from the Los Angeles suburb of Torrance, California, was officially identified on Friday as the assailant in the rampage at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, which ranks as the deadliest among dozens of U.S. mass shootings in the past two years. According to Reuters new Agency.
Information coming to the fore indicates Mercer was born in Britain but came to the United States as a young child.
Reports indicate he had a month long stint in the US Army but was terminated before he even became a soldier.
According to Reuters, The shooter left behind a “multipage, hated-filled” statement in the classroom, according to a Twitter message from an NBC reporter, citing multiple law enforcement sources who were not identified. CNN, citing sources, said the statement showed animosity toward blacks.
CNN insist it will not show Mercer’s face on it’s network neither will it mention his name. The reason CNN gives for this position is that Mercer wanted notoriety and the network would not help him to get that notoriety. Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin, who has vowed never to say the gunman’s name, declined to comment when asked about the writings at a news conference.
This writer totally see how the dead Christopher Mercer will be benefitting from his face being on television and his name being mentioned on their air. [sic]
It’s interesting to note that the same Sheriff John Hanlin wrote to Vice President Joe Biden Two years ago, Hanlin was one of hundreds of sheriffs around the country who vowed to stand against new gun control legislation. In a January 15, 2013, letter to Vice President Joe Biden, he wrote, “Gun control is NOT the answer to preventing heinous crimes like school shootings.”
After the shooting John Hanlin was questioned about his stance in response he said he will not deal with that issue as he is occupied with dealing with the events at hand.
So we decided to produce John Hanlin’s letter to the Vice President of the United States.
According to reuters reporting ‚The first thing customers entering the Gun Shop in Roseburg Oregon see is a life-sized cardboard cutout of President Barack Obama with a Middle Eastern scarf around his head and a badge pinned to his chest that reads: “Gun salesman of the year.”
The customers and sales staff in this store, located 10 miles (16 km) from Umpqua Community College, where a gunman killed nine people and injured nine others on Thursday, said they were horrified by the shootings. But they were not buying the president’s argument that guns were the problem.
Note that that letter was addressed to Vice President Biden and not the President of the United States.
The threatening tone of the letter cannot be ignored
But what is even more revealing is the sentence which reads thus.“We are Americans” suggesting by inference that the President of the United States is not American.
The penultimate paragraph amounted to nothing less than an outright threat against the president and the duly constituted authority of the Federal Government.
These are the backwater hicks who are policing America’s streets and supposedly upholding the nation’s laws.
According to Police six guns were recovered at the scene of the shooting and seven more recovered from the home of Christopher Harper-Mercer . A total of 13 guns which they insist were all purchased legally.
Yet many within the community including cops insist the problem is not guns it is mental illness.
Imagine if someone with an Arab sounding name had committed this act ?
The President of the United states pointed to the disconnect in America as it relates to the noise surrounding gun control as against the number of Americans killed in incidents not characterized as terrorist acts each year.
According to Vox.com Deaths from gun violence vs. deaths from terrorism, in one chart
More than 10,000 Americans are killed every year by gun violence. By contrast, so few Americans have been killed by terrorist attacks since 9⁄11 that when you chart the two together, the terrorism death count approximates zero for every year except 2001. The point President Obama is making is clear: We spend huge amounts of money every year fighting terrorism, yet are unwilling, at the national level, to take even minor steps (like requiring background checks on all gun sales nationally) to stop gun violence.
Never mind that this creep who took the lives of those unsuspecting people also expressed hatred toward Black people.
As America spends Trillions protecting against the “bogeyman Islam” the facts are unmistakeable the real killing of Americans are being done by Americans, right here in America.
Islamic hatred and Xenophobia will not change those numbers there is a large part of the American population which is hellbent on self destruction fuelled by racial hatred. They have a blind allegiance to the second amendment to the constitution only because that amendment suits their insane desire to own a multiplicity of weapons of mass destruction.
Weapons which they believe gives them the ability to control others through fear by force of arms. Unfortunately for everyone those weapons are killing everyone , not just those they hate but them and their children as well.
This 26 year old killer had 13 guns.
How many is enough?
Don’t expect this insanity to end anytime soon if ever.