NAA Issues Statement on Oregon Community College Shooting

The Newtown Action Alliance issued a statement Friday in response to the shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore.

“We understand that words are not adequate in these circumstances but we offer them in the hope that they will provide even some small comfort,” the NAA said in a statement. “The families of the victims and the community of Roseberg are in our thoughts and in our hearts. Like Newtown, the entire community of Roseberg will change forever as a result of yesterday’s tragic shooting.”

“We are extremely angry that Congress has not taken action to prevent these senseless shootings after the tragic Sandy Hook shooting almost three years ago,” the statement said.

The NAA added Newtown should have been the watershed moment in America when “lives mattered more than corporate gun profits.”

The organization called on Americans nationwide to honor the victims and survivors of the shooting in Oregon by joining their efforts to demand action from Congress.

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