It's really appreciated that he's pushing this. With the spectre of yet another unbalanced gunman going on a shooting outrage I don't see how you deny the urgent need for some level of reasonable gun control.
Fighting back tears, the father of one the journalists killed on live TV Wednesday morning made an impassioned plea for gun control on Fox News. Andy Parker, father of WDBJ reporter Alison Parker, told Megyn Kelly that “we’ve got to do something about crazy people getting guns.”
“My mission in life… I’m going to do something to shame legislators into doing something about closing loopholes and background checks and making sure crazy people don’t get guns,” Parker said.
Her father’s comments were reinforced by her boyfriend, Chris Hurst. “Clearly something went wrong here between him leaving our station and being able to purchase a gun and commit a premeditated act,” Hurst told Kelly.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/08/26/3695935/father-of-slain-journalist-makes-emotional-plea-for-gun-control-on-fox-news/
"Andy Parker, the father of slain WDBJ journalist Alison Parker, is demanding that politicians restrict access to firearms, saying he will personally become a crusader for this issue if need be."
"If I have to be the John Walsh of gun control and -- look, I'm for the Second Amendment, but there has to be a way to force politicians that are cowards and in the pockets of the NRA to come to grips and make sense -- have sensible laws so that crazy people can't get guns. It can't be that hard," said Parker in an interview with CNN's "New Day."
"Walsh created "America's Most Wanted" and became a prominent victims' rights advocate after his son was murdered in 1981."
"Alison Parker, 24, was a journalist with WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia. On Wednesday morning, she and her cameraman, Adam Ward, 27, were gunned down during a live broadcast. The gunman, whom police have identified as former station employee Vester Lee Flanagan, also filmed the shooting and put footage of it up on social media."
"What generally happens after mass shootings is that politicians offer their condolences but wave off any calls for gun control or other legislative measures. They say it's too soon and not the right time. But with mass shootings happening nearly every week, this sort of response essentially puts the issue off indefinitely."
"Parker said Thursday that he doesn't want the country to simply sit back and give him time to grieve. He wants something to be done. "
"[P]oliticians from the local level to the state level to the national level, they sidestep the issue. They kick the can down the road. This can't happen anymore," he said.
"Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) called Parker Wednesday, and Parker told him he was going to be a "crusader" on the issue."
"And I know that the NRA, their position is going to be -- I can hear it now. They're going to say, 'Oh gee, well, if they were carrying, this never would have happened,'" Parker said.
"I've got news for you. If Alison or Adam had been caring an AK-47 strapped around their waist, it wouldn't have made any difference," he added. "They couldn't have seen this thing coming. So I don't want to hear that argument from the NRA, and you know that's going to happen. And I'm going to take it on."
But what is really incredible is that Mr. Parker made his impassioned plea for gun control where we do something at least about the violent mentally ill getting a hold of a firearm-on Fox News, indeed, on Trump's girlfriend's show-Megyn Kelly.
“My mission in life… I’m going to do something to shame legislators into doing something about closing loopholes and background checks and making sure crazy people don’t get guns,” Parker said.
Her father’s comments were reinforced by her boyfriend, Chris Hurst. “Clearly something went wrong here between him leaving our station and being able to purchase a gun and commit a premeditated act,” Hurst told Kelly.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/08/26/3695935/father-of-slain-journalist-makes-emotional-plea-for-gun-control-on-fox-news/
Again, this plea was made on Fox News. So how does Fox News deal with this breach of ideology-after all guns don't kill people, people kill people-though usually with the help of a gun. They blamed it on Planned Parenthood. I wish I was kidding.
As you read this, consider that this is a man who just lost his wonderful daughter for no good reason at all.
"The next segment on Fox News featured conservative commentator Dana Loesch who rejected calls for gun control and blamed the murder on elements of society that “don’t teach a respect for life,” like Planned Parenthood."
So Fox just pees on the victims graves basically. Sure it's Planned Parenthood's fault.
"Andy Parker, the father of slain WDBJ journalist Alison Parker, is demanding that politicians restrict access to firearms, saying he will personally become a crusader for this issue if need be."
"If I have to be the John Walsh of gun control and -- look, I'm for the Second Amendment, but there has to be a way to force politicians that are cowards and in the pockets of the NRA to come to grips and make sense -- have sensible laws so that crazy people can't get guns. It can't be that hard," said Parker in an interview with CNN's "New Day."
"Walsh created "America's Most Wanted" and became a prominent victims' rights advocate after his son was murdered in 1981."
"Alison Parker, 24, was a journalist with WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia. On Wednesday morning, she and her cameraman, Adam Ward, 27, were gunned down during a live broadcast. The gunman, whom police have identified as former station employee Vester Lee Flanagan, also filmed the shooting and put footage of it up on social media."
"What generally happens after mass shootings is that politicians offer their condolences but wave off any calls for gun control or other legislative measures. They say it's too soon and not the right time. But with mass shootings happening nearly every week, this sort of response essentially puts the issue off indefinitely."
"Parker said Thursday that he doesn't want the country to simply sit back and give him time to grieve. He wants something to be done. "
"[P]oliticians from the local level to the state level to the national level, they sidestep the issue. They kick the can down the road. This can't happen anymore," he said.
"Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) called Parker Wednesday, and Parker told him he was going to be a "crusader" on the issue."
"And I know that the NRA, their position is going to be -- I can hear it now. They're going to say, 'Oh gee, well, if they were carrying, this never would have happened,'" Parker said.
"I've got news for you. If Alison or Adam had been caring an AK-47 strapped around their waist, it wouldn't have made any difference," he added. "They couldn't have seen this thing coming. So I don't want to hear that argument from the NRA, and you know that's going to happen. And I'm going to take it on."
Mr. Parker sounds like a courageous and determined man who will not stop till he gets some justice for his daughter. I also appreciate that he said he's pro second amendment. So am I-no one is calling for gun prohibition. But surely it's time we say enough.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-virginia-shooting_55de347fe4b0e7117ba8c664
Parker also is politically astute and understands the political opposition he will encounter. I wish him luck and it's not just up to him but all of us to finally say enough.
Remember how the father of the young man who was killed (literally right next door to me here in Goleta... by the "Isla Vista" shooter (Isla Vista was where I lived when I attended UCSB)) was mocked because he got so emotional in his plea for legislators to "do something!" I predict it will happen again. Although I really should look at some of your links before making wild speculative predictions...
ReplyDeleteBTW, I just checked: the killings happened 2.2 miles from where I live, and 1.5 miles from where I work. I watched one of that kid's (the shooter's) videos, and he literally used to park in the very same spot I parked at the golf course when I went there for lunch (less than 1 mile away, BTW).
Not the first time I've had a tangential "relationship" with one of these mass murdering nuts: I dated a woman who lived next door to a crazy lady who would argue with herself at night. One night she went over to bang on her door to tell her to keep it down, and changed her mind when she realized she was arguing to herself... however another neighbor DID bang on the lady's door.
That same lady (who worked at the post office BTW!... 1/2 mile away, Lol), wigged out and killed eight people with a gun in a rampage, mostly ex-coworkers at the post office, but also that neighbor who knocked on her door! That was some time ago (2004 maybe?).
Jeez Tom you have a lot of experience LOL Fox already laughed by following up his segment with the claim that violence is cause by Planned Parenthood.
ReplyDeleteIF I remember you have a a background with guns right? I seem to remember a conversation like that with us before
Yes that's true... I've taken both my Jewish coworker and my Palestinian coworker shooting... not the same day though! (c:
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