Posted on 08/27/2015 5:59:58 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
(CNN)One day after reporter Alison Parker, 24, and her cameraman, Adam Ward, 27, were gunned down on live television in Roanoke, Virginia, Parker's boyfriend said merely remembering their lives is not enough.
"There needs to be some action that is taken out of an event like this -- out of an event like Sandy Hook, like Charleston, like Aurora, Colorado... where these things just don't occur anymore," Chris Hurst told CNN on Thursday, citing a litany of American gun violence.
"We need to have a substantive conversation on what is going on in America that is allowing evil to continue to crop up over love? Is it because we are in the media? And the attacker knew this was going to get a lot of play, and here we are again, another mushroom cloud of coverage over gun violence?"
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“Could have been just as easy to kill both people with a large knife.”
There’s your dialogue, Chris.
See, when I hear crap like this coming out of victims family members mouths I lose all respect for them. Im sorry for his loss I really am, this reporter she seemed like a really nice woman, I checked out her twitter feed, a nice young woman, had her whole life ahead of her, but don’t use her death to take away MY right to protect myself. The same liberals who have a beef about labeling ALL Muslims terrorists and labeling ALL blacks thugs have no problem labeling all gun owners evil when a nut does something terrible
Fine. You can’t have my guns, you cannot restrict my rights. Dialog over.
Yesterday a deranged nutball stabbed his sister in law to death in Louisiana and shot a police officer to death..notice no one in the media mentions how this guy(A Black man, I know, surprise surprise) stabbed his sister in law to death, with a KNIFE, are they going to ban knives
After we’ve killed 55 million kids in this country, and enshrined it as a “constitutional right” that is more fundamental than the rights actually named in the constitution ... he thinks guns are the reason life is cheapened?
Perhaps a little more interest in relative’s mental health might help. In just about all these cases the family had inklings that something was off with their kin.
If one of my kids or a family member or even a person I regularly come in contact with espoused the kinds of things that would lead me to believe he or she could become violent or do something like that I would certainly do what I could to prevent that. Whether that means I contact the police or mental health folks or what I can’t say, but I would for sure make sure their access to weapons be restricted.
But in these cases to date it appears the family has washed their hands of the person. The result is a mass shooting, or some other violent act.
No additional laws will get those in regular contact to do the right thing.
I have a problem with fungible standards on what “crazy” means.
“We need to have a substantive conversation...”
I know someone who lost a loved one by the violent act of a disturbed individual. She was deluged with invitations from the media, including personal messages from celebrity tv hosts, even a movie offer. Over twenty years have passed and she still hasn’t hit the airwaves to say anything at all, never mind “We need to have a substantive conversation...”
Going into seclusion and experiencing shock and grief in private, is that now an antiquated practice? How does anyone say that less than 24hrs after a fiancee is murdered?
No. Sorry your girlfriend got shot...I truly am, but gun laws aren’t the problem. Maybe we should look into the issue of crazy black fags getting to walk around with the rest of as if they were normal.
To get rid of guns Obamimam is going to have to kill all of us. That is more people than the Nazis killed in their gas chambers. There are people who will stand by the road as we are trucked to the ovens and cheer.
People eating their dinner within a few hundred meters of where I sit, no doubt.
Once people start looking to take my rights away, they lose any and all sympathy from me. In fact, they become my enemy.
I am sorry for their loss. She seems like a very nice person. But within hours, both the boyfriend and father have made this into a gun control issue. They go from one television interview to the next. The father rattled off the ones he’s doing tomorrow.
We haven’t seen the cameraman’s family or his fiancé. I imagine they are too broken up to run to the cameras.
It was just “workplace violence”, right Barry? Barry?
Or was it the guy making the video? Hillary? Comment?
maybe he should dialogue about racism after all the reporter was accused of racism and we know that no one would cry racism if it wasn’t true. /S
“If I were in that situation I wouldn’t even be able to get on TV. It would be family only.”
Who in their right mind agrees to go on TV a few hours after their loved one or daughter is gunned down and murdered?
How about ask why current laws aren’t enforced? And why the TV station did not get a protective order issued against this guy? They did require him to seek mental health counseling or face termination.
“Vice-President Biden said, “And to your point, Mr. Baker, regarding the lack of prosecutions on lying on Form 4473s, we simply don’t have the time or manpower to prosecute everybody who lies on a form, that checks a wrong box, that answers a question inaccurately.” That’s right: Biden said the administration just doesn’t have time to prosecute crimes (felonies punishable by up to a 10-year prison sentence) under existing laws, but is proposing a host of sweeping new laws.”
Nothing has changed in enforcement since this thread:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2980073/posts
I think he suffered from the mental illness of liberalism; always a victim, double whammy because he was black and gay. of course it wasn’t diagnosed or documented because if anyone reported it they would be a racist homophobic.
“US DOJ recruiting insane dwarf lawyers:”
What if they are dwarf lawyers but not insane?
How about a dialog on racism instead, he wanted to start a race war...and he used a gun.
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