"What is wrong with having a security guard carrying a firearm?"
An Oregon state representative, who served over 29 years as a state police officer, is disappointed with the anti-gun rhetoric by President Obama and others following Thursday’s campus shooting in his state.
In remarks Thursday night after the shooting, Obama said: “This is something we should politicize,” adding that it is “a political choice that we make to allow [these shootings] to happen every few months in America.”
Republican Rep. Andy Olson, from central Oregon, disagrees with Obama. He told USA Headline News radio talk show host Russ Jones on Friday: “Let the community and let the state mourn. Don’t start with the politics immediately.”
Olson added: “There’ll come another day when we can take a look and evaluate and assess what has happened and what to do as a state here in Oregon to maybe better improve our gun rights, without infringing what we’re doing with the Second Amendment.”
He believes that the shooting at Umpqua Community College necessitates a review of the school’s policy of having an unarmed security guard and whether those students and others who have a conceal carry license should be allowed to bring their weapons on campus. “What is wrong with having a security guard carrying a firearm? We don’t know.”
The former president of UCC, Joe Olson, told the New York Times: “We talked about that over the last year because we were concerned about safety on campus,” he said. “The campus was split 50-50. We thought we were a very safe campus, and having armed security officers on campus might change the culture.”
“He added, though, that he did not believe a security guard could prevent a gunman determined to kill,” according to the Times.
“If you want to come on the campus and you want to shoot five people, you are going to do that before our security would arrive,” the former president said.
Rep. Olson commended Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin for vowing never to speak the shooter’s name in public, as to not give the shooter the notoriety he likely sought.
The former police officer told talk show host Jones that he was in no way a counselor, but wanted to pass on to people of Roseburg and UCC that the range of emotions they will feel in the upcoming days–guilt, depression, hatred, remorse, bewilderment–is normal. “It is okay to mourn, the nation is praying for you.”
You can listen to the interview below:
http://www.westernjournalism.com/oregon-politician-tells-whole-country-what-it-should-do-after-shooting-obama-didnt-get-the-message/?
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