Small town Oregon gun shop owner Carolyn Kellim, 86, has a message for President Obama: “Control is for animals. It’s not for humans.”

Kellim operates KC’s Exchange gun shop out of her Roseburg, Oregon home – about 10 miles from the recent deadly shooting at Umpqua Community College – she shares with her husband of 49 years. The white-haired grandmother donates all of her proceeds to Casa de Belen, which serves the homeless in her community, KGW reports.

“I’m doing the best I can to make as much money as I can to give to a charity that works with kids and families,” Kellim told the news site. “That’s so important in today’s world. We have to take care of people that have had a bad luck stroke.”

Kellim’s sage wisdom comes as President Obama prepares for a four-day trip of the west coast that opens with a stop in Roseburg to visit with the families of nine people who were killed when 26-year-old gunman Christopher Harper-Mercer opened fire at Umpqua Community College last Thursday. Harper-Mercer also killed himself, the Associated Press reports.

The president has again called for stricter gun control laws in the wake of the shooting, but Kellim thinks the “executive anus” has “strange ideas” that won’t work to prevent similar tragedies.

“I think that’s the worst thing in the world they could do,” Kellim said of new gun laws. “They’ve got so many laws now that they are not even looking at, and more constraints on guns is not the answer.”

“I don’t think he’s ever carried a gun,” Kellim said of Obama. “I’m not sure he’s ever shot one … but he seems to think that they’re bad all the way through. They’re not.”

Kellim said the shooting at Umpqua and similar incidents typically stem from mentally unstable individuals who don’t receive the help they need, like Harper-Mercer.

“How can you hate him? You don’t know him,” Kellim said. “He was just a child … He probably had his ups and downs, mostly downs. How are you going to come out of that if someone doesn’t care.”

It’s providing support to troubled individuals that will keep communities safe, she said.

“The thing that we need to do … we need to love people a heck of a lot more and make sure that all of our people in this community are accepted and that they have friends and that they have somebody maybe to sit down and talk to,” Kellim said.

“I think you’ll find that you’ll get a lot better response from just loving people than you will from trying to find fault with them and trying to keep them controlled,” she said. “Control is for animals. It’s not for humans.”