The local newspaper in Roseburg, Oregon, has been pro-gun for years
The local newspaper, the Roseburg News-Review, and the town at large have been staunchly pro-gun for years, as evidenced by a number of op-eds and letters to the editors.
"The Second Amendment was considered essential to prevent a tyrannical government from ever usurping complete control over the people," Roseburg resident Thomas Bonn wrote in an op-ed in the paper in 2013. "Places like Communist China, the Soviet Russia, and Nazi Germany have demonstrated how tyrants clinch total control over multitudes by disarming them, and how easily they can then liquidate their opponents by the tens of millions ... Those are the types of mass murders that we must forever prevent here."
Another resident, Robert Hilliard, decried the 2013 UN gun-ban treaty in the local paper.
"Obama and Hillary Clinton both support this travesty on American's [sic] rights under the constitution," wrote Hilliard. "Obama and Clinton must be taking their cues from the Communist Manifesto, which teaches citizens to give up their rights for the sake of the 'common good,' but that always ends in a police state."
A resident of nearby Yoncalla, Oregon, Patrick Conley took it a step further, claiming that some of Obama's policies are part of his plan to "take revenge on" Americans.