Ten years ago this fall, 26-year-old student Chris Harper-Mercer entered his writing class at the Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, and forced fellow students toward the center of the room. After shooting his teacher point-blank, the disturbed young man began asking classmates about what they believed, before shooting 16 of them — killing half of them.
Two years earlier in 2013, President Barack Obama had unsuccessfully pushed Congress to pass new legislation following the national horror over 20 children and 6 adults shot at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
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