UMPAQUA COLLEGE SHOOTING VICTIMS STILL AGAINST GUN CONTROL

Cheyeanne Fitzgerald and her family and the family of Quinn Cooper continue to be staunch opponents of gun control

With all the hysterical calls for more gun controls in the wake of the Umpaque Community College massacre, it is most refreshing to see that some of the very victims of that shooting tragedy are expressing their opposition to more gun controls.

16-year-old Cheyeanne Fitzgerald was shot in the back, lost a kidney and remains hospitalized in very serious condition. Cheyeanne’s brother Jesse spoke to DailyMail.com outside the hospital and said the family had discussed the issue of gun ownership and said that all, including Cheyeanne, remain opposed to controls.

Here is what Jesse Fitzgerald said.

“We’re pro second amendment, pro guns. My sister, my mother, my whole family are all in favor. We were talking about it in the hospital and none of us have changed our minds.”

“We should have teachers trained in non-lethal ways to take people down. There is surely a way to defend kids at school. Armed guards on campus maybe.”

Shortly after the shootings, Cheyeanne’s mother Bonnie Schaal told reporters that she wished her daughter had been armed.

18-year-old Quinn Cooper was shot dead during the campus massacre. His grieving family released a statement Friday in which they said their lives were shattered beyond repair but that Quinn’s death should not be used to advance arguments in favor of gun controls.

The Cooper family statement said:

“We are hearing so many people talk about gun control and taking people's guns away. If the public couldn't have guns it wouldn't help since sick people like this will always be able to get their hands on a gun.”

“We need to be able to protect ourselves as a community and as a nation. Please don't let this horrible act of insanity become about who should or shouldn't have a gun.”

President Obama and Hillary Clinton, please take note. And to Piers Morgan and all the other hysterical media jerks that have had a field day condemning America’s ‘gun culture’, Cheyeanne Fitzgerald and her family and the family of Quinn Cooper have told you to shove it up where the sun don’t shine!