--- title: Oregon Shooting: President Obama to Meet With Families description: Obama will travel to Oregon at the start of a trip to the West Coast canonical: https://time.com/4062517/oregon-shooting-president-obama-families/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-06T11:59:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T11:32:28.706Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Obama Will Meet With Oregon Shooting Victims' Families og:description: Obama will travel to Oregon at the start of a trip to the West Coast og:url: https://time.com/4062517/oregon-shooting-president-obama-families/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd38a6350984ae008/698866febc6cfc308d3d9c4b/obama6.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2247 og:image:height: 1264 og:image:alt: US-CRIME-OREGON-SHOOTING-OBAMA og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Obama Will Meet With Oregon Shooting Victims' Families twitter:description: Obama will travel to Oregon at the start of a trip to the West Coast twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd38a6350984ae008/698866febc6cfc308d3d9c4b/obama6.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Obama Will Meet With Oregon Shooting Victims' Families > Sponsored content. 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US President Barack Obama delivers a statement, after a shooting at a community college in Oregon that left up to 10 people dead, in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC on October 1, 2015. Mandel Ngan—AFP/Getty Images by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Oct 6, 2015 11:59 AM UTC President Obama will [travel to Roseburg, Ore. on Friday](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/oregon-college-shooting/obama-visit-oregon-meet-family-umpqua-community-college-shooting-victims-n439041) to privately meet with families of the victims of the mass shooting on a community college campus there. The White House has provided no further details of the President’s plans in Oregon, according to [NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/oregon-college-shooting/obama-visit-oregon-meet-family-umpqua-community-college-shooting-victims-n439041). The visit comes at the start of a pre-scheduled trip to the West Coast. This isn’t the first time the president has had to console grieving family members after their loved ones were killed in a mass shooting. It isn’t even the first time this year—Obama traveled to Charleston, S.C. in June, where he met with families and survivors of the Emanuel A.M.E. Church massacre. Obama expressed frustration with the nation’s inability to enact meaningful gun reform in the wake of the Oregon shooting, saying shortly afterward, “our thoughts and prayers are not enough.” “It’s not enough,” Obama continued. “It does not capture the heartache and grief and anger that we should feel and it does nothing to prevent this carnage from being inflicted someplace else in America.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4062517/oregon-shooting-president-obama-families/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4062517/oregon-shooting-president-obama-families/"},"headline":"President Obama Will Meet With Oregon Shooting Victims' Families","datePublished":"2015-10-06T11:59:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:32:28.706Z","description":"Obama will travel to Oregon at the start of a trip to the West Coast","url":"https://time.com/4062517/oregon-shooting-president-obama-families/","keywords":["White House","Barack Obama","Obama","oregon","Oregon shooting"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd38a6350984ae008/698866febc6cfc308d3d9c4b/obama6.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd38a6350984ae008/698866febc6cfc308d3d9c4b/obama6.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-CRIME-OREGON-SHOOTING-OBAMA","caption":"US-CRIME-OREGON-SHOOTING-OBAMA","creditText":"Mandel Ngan—AFP/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":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4062517/oregon-shooting-president-obama-families/","name":"President Obama Will Meet With Oregon Shooting Victims' Families"}}]}] ```