OBAMA: Boosting NRA membership

Obama and Clinton would have us believe that background checks for gun purchases would reduce mass shootings. The shooter at the Oregon school 1) had no criminal record, 2) had no history of mental illness and 3) had a mother who bought weapons for him.

The killer at the school in Sandy Hook, Conn., also had a mother who bought weapons for him. Both schools were gun-free zones which meant that security guards and other law-abiding adults couldn’t carry weapons on campus.

“Gun-free” zones should be called “free-fire” zones for criminals, terrorists and aggressive mentally ill loners. Socialists like Obama and Clinton are unintentionally recruiting new members for the NRA. I joined this week.

BOB RIDOUT

Hayden

Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from The Oregonian newspaper:

“Umpqua Community College, site of a mass shooting, bans guns, knives longer than 4 inches and other weapons from campus.

“But that policy has one big exemption that renders the pastoral 100-acre campus near Roseburg anything but a gun-free zone: Everyone with a concealed firearms license is allowed to bring guns on campus.

“That is because a 1989 Oregon law forbids any public body except the Legislature from restricting the rights of concealed weapons permit-holders to bring guns where they wish.

“Proponents of gun rights have seized on [the] tragic killing of eight Oregon college students and their writing instructor as evidence that so-called gun-free zones, or places where all guns are banned, are especially dangerous because a gunman plotting a mass killing will know there is no armed person there who can stop him. Proponents of gun restrictions have shot back with their own take on gun-free zones.

“The college’s no-guns policy seems to be obvious evidence that the Umpqua campus was such a place. But Oregon gun owners with concealed firearms licenses know those licenses entitle them to carry loaded guns in nearly all public places. Guns, including handguns and rifles, are allowed on campus for people who have passed all background checks and conditions to qualify for a concealed weapon permit.”