Tennessee Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey encouraged his “fellow Christians” to arm themselves and “think about getting a handgun carry permit.”
This statement, on Ramsey’s Facebook page, comes following the mass shooting in Oregon Thursday.
The gunman, Christopher Harper Mercer, was later killed in a firefight with police at Umpqua Community College.
Survivors of the Umpqua shooting told relatives that Mercer asked people whether they were Christian or not. Anyone who responded “yes” was shot in the head and those who said “other” or didn’t answer were shot elsewhere in the body, said Autumn Vicari, whose brother was in the classroom.
Mercer appeared to be sympathetic to the predominantly Catholic Irish Republican Army — but also posted online that he was “not religious.”
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