Christopher Harper-Mercer

Christopher Sean Harper-Mercer was a young, mass murderer who conducted a mass shooting at Umpqua Community College (UCC) in Oregon on October 1, 2015.

Shooter

The shooter according to his own online description of himself was "not religious" and he didn't like "organized religion". He was also anti-Christian and asked his victims if they were a Christian and if they said yes, he shot them in the head, but if the person said no, he shot them in the leg. Harper- Mercer was British born, but he moved to the United States early as a child. He was a fan of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and he was pro-Nazi. On a dating website profile, he described himself as "conservative, Republican."

The shooter was a 26-year-old social misfit. The Daily Mail describes him as "a friendless oddball who had frequent temper tantrums, no friends, wore cargo short and combat boots and screaming fights with his mother, say former neighbors".

Myspace

The shooter's Myspace listed two friends. One of them Mahmoud Ali Ehsani posted numerous pro-Islamic terrorist photos. A Ehsani photograph caption read,

“my brave soldiers keep on fighting for the liberation of Palestine against Israel. f*ck Israel. Kill the Jews. jews are the only infidels.”

Shooting

According to eyewitness accounts, the shooter deliberately singled out Christians for death. One of the victims recounted the shooter instructing his victims to stand and asking them if they were Christians. Those who answered “yes,” were shot in the head. “If they said ‘other’ or didn’t answer, they were shot elsewhere in the body, usually the leg.” A similar report came from a student who saw the shooting.

Reactions

Barack Obama

Immediately following the shooting, as usual Obama made made a public speech pushing for greater gun control. Though this response is not always the case, after a Muslim killed five military personal during July 2015 in Chattanooga or after a racist black homosexual who inspired Christopher Harper-Mercer killed a journalist and her camera man taping the incident Obama did not politicize the shooting by demanding stricter gun control rather commenting America is a racist nation.

Umpqua Community College bans guns on campus and in August a supposed universal background check law took effect.

Sheriff John Hanlin

Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin, in charge of the investigation, stated that new gun control laws would not stop school shootings.

Ron Ramsey

Tennessee's Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the State Senate stated on Facebook:

The recent spike in mass shootings across the nation is truly troubling. Whether the perpetrators are motivated by aggressive secularism, jihadist extremism or racial supremacy, their targets remain the same: Christians and defenders of the West.

While this is not the time for widespread panic, it is a time to prepare. I would encourage my fellow Christians who are serious about their faith to think about getting a handgun carry permit. I have always believed that it is better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.

Our enemies are armed. We must do likewise.

Local Community

The community have reacted sensibly, stocking up on guns to protect against another such shooting.