--- title: Oregon Shooting: Full Text of President Obama's Statement description: The President spoke passionately from the Press Briefing room on Thursday canonical: https://time.com/4058961/oregon-shooting-president-obama-transcript-speech/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-02T00:57:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T11:28:01.272Z article:section: Politics og:title: Transcript: Full Text of Obama's Oregon Shooting Statement og:description: "There’s been another mass shooting in America" og:url: https://time.com/4058961/oregon-shooting-president-obama-transcript-speech/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5add4c733f5f57b2/6988669fbc6cfc150b3d9b9a/obama2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: President Obama Speaks On The Mass Shooting At Community College In Oregon og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Transcript: Full Text of Obama's Oregon Shooting Statement twitter:description: "There’s been another mass shooting in America" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5add4c733f5f57b2/6988669fbc6cfc150b3d9b9a/obama2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Transcript: Read the Full Text of Obama's Statement on the Shooting in Oregon by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Oct 2, 2015 12:57 AM UTC  Barack Obama speaks at a press conference on Oct. 1, 2015 in Washington, DC. Barack Obama speaks at a press conference on Oct. 1, 2015 in Washington, DC.Mark Wilson—Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Oct 2, 2015 12:57 AM UTC President Obama [spoke](http://time.com/4058841/obama-mass-shootings/) from the podium of the James Brady Press Briefing room on Thursday evening in the wake of the [mass shooting](http://time.com/4058269/oregon-shooting-community-college/) at Umpqua Community College. --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4058961/oregon-shooting-president-obama-transcript-speech/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4058961/oregon-shooting-president-obama-transcript-speech/"},"headline":"Transcript: Read the Full Text of Obama's Statement on the Shooting in Oregon","datePublished":"2015-10-02T00:57:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:28:01.272Z","description":"The President spoke passionately from the Press Briefing room on Thursday","url":"https://time.com/4058961/oregon-shooting-president-obama-transcript-speech/","keywords":["Crime","Obama","shooting","President Obama"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5add4c733f5f57b2/6988669fbc6cfc150b3d9b9a/obama2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5add4c733f5f57b2/6988669fbc6cfc150b3d9b9a/obama2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Obama Speaks On The Mass Shooting At Community College In Oregon","caption":"President Obama Speaks On The Mass Shooting At Community College In Oregon","creditText":"Mark Wilson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4058961/oregon-shooting-president-obama-transcript-speech/","name":"Transcript: Read the Full Text of Obama's Statement on the Shooting in Oregon"}}]}] ```