"This is Oregon.  This is not who we are""

Absolutely true.  From the time Oregon became a Territory in 1849 we have NEVER had a Territorial or State official assassinated.  You have to go clear back to 1844 to dig up the killing of  George Lebreton, Clerk and Recorder of the Provisional Government  who was shot and killed   in the famous  "Cockstock Afair" as he tried to break up a fight between an Indian and a black person over a dispute over a horse.  We've never had such troubles again until recently when  a paranoid collection of bullies began making outrageous threats of violence upon our leaders.  
                        
No, these jerks do NOT represent who we are as Oregonians.