Chapter 22-Umpqua Community College, OR
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Cyndy White and Larry Olson loved small town life. They'd gone to college and married in Eugene, Oregon; but it had been too "big city" for them. So, they'd moved back to Roseburg, a town of about 20,000. So what in the world would make them want to tear up roots, travel to the East Coast, live in the decidedly un-small townish environment of Washington, DC, and work for the NRA? What indeed.......
"Somehow this has become routine! The reporting is routine, my response, here at this podium ends up being routine, the conversation in the aftermath of it, we've become numb to this. We talked about this after Columbine and Blacksburg, after Tucson, after Newtown, after Aurora, after Charlestown. It cannot be this easy for somebody who wants to inflict harm on other people to get his or her hands on a gun." President Obama, 10/01/2015, after Umpqua Community College shooting
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