response here at this podium ends up being routine, the conversation in the aftermath of it, we have become numb to this. we talked about this after column bien and blacksburg, tucson, newtown, aurora, charleston. it cannot be this easy for somebody who wants to inflict harm on other people to get his or her hands on a gun. while many of the scenes of these mass shootings are becoming too familiar, it doesn t lessen the shock for those there in roseburg. survivors say they never thought something like this could happen. shelby is one of those who was locked in the cafeteria as all of this unfold ed.
we have a long series of names branded on our hearts from across the nation. places like columbine, sandy hook and now here at umpqua community college here in roseburg. it s a list of names that no community ever wants to have been included in. and at this moment, this senseless act has broken hearts, every heart here. this is a small community. it s a community where everyone knows someone who was hurt or killed yesterday. the community has come together in an extraordinary fashion.
i was born in myrtle creek just south of here. when i was about 2 we moved here to roseburg. i went to 1st grade here. i have family on both sides. my father s side and mother s side and this morning i was asked about my family down here. and i must say i never thought it could possibly be that my family, my extended family and cousins were directly affected. but as i said, this is a small town and everyone is affected. and one of the individuals who died is the great granddaughter of my first cousin, so she is my cousin. and i just tell you, every heart is damaged and broken. and this community is coming
surviving sandy hook. he blogs on that same sort of file sharing website about the two reporters who were killed in virginia basically saying that gunman was unknown and carries out this horrible act and everybody knows his name. so he s 26 years old. e we know that. and right now, everybody is trying to peel back to find out where specifically and what pushed him over the edge. note rye ri and inspiration from some of the previous shootings, it s a pattern. standby. let me go to anna cabrera in roseburg. you were there at the news conference. that s when e we learned how many weapons were recovered. even more than e we imagined initially. 6 of those 13 weapons, we re told, were recovered on campus at the shooting scene. seven other firearms were recovered at the shooter s residence. all of them, we learned, purchased legally in the last
that s not the only cause of this, obviously. but it s a big one. it s one that s forgotten a lot. do me a favor, standby. we re going to continue this conversation. we are now hearing from the president of the united states next hour. he will be addressing a personnel change within the administration, but he will be asked questions presumably will be germane to what happened here in roseburg, oregon. please stay with me. i m brooke baldwin. this is cnn s special live coverage. bill s got a very tough 13lie here.. looks like we have some sort of