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Slain TV reporter's boyfriend asks for dialogue over gun violence
CNN.com ^ | 08/27/2015 | Ben Brumfield, Eliott C. McLaughlin and Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN

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?"

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; guncontrol; guns; secondamendment; vesterflanagan; vesterleeflanagan; virginia; wdbj
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

dear ePlur,

re: This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hit the big-time!

If he were the type to take his victimization, and capitalize on it.


81 posted on 08/27/2015 8:03:15 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Parley Baer

> How about gay violence? How about black violence? That is what the discussion needs to be about.

The left; completely mental.


82 posted on 08/27/2015 8:04:13 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: vpintheak
Fine. You can’t have my guns, you cannot restrict my rights. Dialog over.

My sentiments precisely. Well stated.

Our answer is NO.

83 posted on 08/27/2015 8:05:45 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (AMERICA IS DONE! When can we start over?)
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To: Jaxmum; gaijin

Could that have been so that they wouldn’t be skeeved by their boss being gay himself? Maybe they wanted guards who would be loyal no matter what they were witnessing? Though I don’t think Ambassador Stevens was enjoying a life full of “action” out there in Libya.


84 posted on 08/27/2015 8:09:27 PM PDT by Yaelle (The election isn't the main thing. Stopping the 2 party oligarchy and their media IS.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
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85 posted on 08/27/2015 8:35:00 PM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

86 posted on 08/27/2015 8:41:41 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Let’s talk about phsycotic gays and how many are serial killers.


87 posted on 08/27/2015 9:16:34 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

In his grief, the man wants to take guns away from crazy people -- a position we could all agree is sensible. The problem is ... a practicing homosexual activist with anger issues is no longer considered mentally ill ... in fact this has become a protected class in the eyes of our legal system. Without reclassifying homosexuality as a mental illness, what facet of the perpetrator's personality would have denied him firearm ownership that would not also infringe on the population-at-large's 2nd Amendment right to bear arms? A mentally ill person bent on shooting someone will find a gun -- better that the rest of us learn to shoot back.


88 posted on 08/27/2015 9:21:57 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Most people have neuroses. If the political/regulator class wants more laws against neurotics having firearms, fine. We’ll have everyone checked and documented forever with no civil remedie$ (briberies through courts) for the more equal animal$. Class-based gun control is foolish, and it will backfire.

Otherwise, accept the fact that sometimes, horrible crimes like murder are committed and cannot be stopped. Murderers who plan their crimes in advance obviously attemp to surprise their victims, and they could just as easily use many different kinds of weapons other than firearms.

The political chatterers should grow up and realize that utopia will not happen. With the chatterers’ penchant for legalizing immorality, it will get worse with or without gun control.


89 posted on 08/27/2015 9:41:25 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Dan Bongino @ Guns Across America Rally in Annapolis, MD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8WLXhahw_A&feature=youtu.be

Excellent message from 2013 is still relevant ....


90 posted on 08/27/2015 10:15:03 PM PDT by Qiviut (Stand up for Jesus, ye soldiers of the cross; lift high his royal banner, it must not suffer loss)
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To: Timber Rattler

This fella keeps saying the strangest things.


91 posted on 08/27/2015 10:16:22 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Has it occurred to anyone that the Murderer was never called to account for his Mental Issues because:

1. He was Black?

2. He was Homosexual?

3. He was a Liberal Democrat?
Well, that screams crazy to me anyway.

He was like those Kids that get passed to a higher Grade when they were actually flunking school. Don’t dare embarrass them by making them stay back a Grade.

It appears his previous Employers had issues with him but they never involved the Authorities and they just told any new Employer who called for a Referral that he was OK.

Don’t want to get Sued you know.


92 posted on 08/27/2015 10:53:01 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Just another Bitter Clinger living the dream in Obamaville...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No spirituality, no morals - that is what is wrong with people. Gun control penalizes good people, but not criminals.

End of dialog.


93 posted on 08/27/2015 11:34:26 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: All

What law could have prevented this?

Not a single one other than an outright ban.


94 posted on 08/27/2015 11:55:00 PM PDT by Rodney Dangerfield (I stopped drinking the Trump Kool-Aid July 25th and will support Ted Cruz for POTUS)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Looking for a political angle before the funeral.

Disgusting.


95 posted on 08/28/2015 2:15:28 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
How about a bit of insensitivity.

if sparky knew (considering he has worked there for a while) this idiot was out there why didn't he get a gun and protect her? Dipsh!t

96 posted on 08/28/2015 5:59:32 AM PDT by SERE_DOC ( “The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.” TJ.)
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To: gaijin
US DOJ recruiting insane dwarf lawyers:

Just don't say midget, For the love!

97 posted on 08/28/2015 6:03:29 AM PDT by SERE_DOC ( “The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.” TJ.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I believe that the person he needs to "dialog" with has assumed room temperature.

He wants us to kill any armed blacks or gays we encounter? He must be a racist like the dead women he failed to protect was.

Good thing they'll never have equally weak kids.

98 posted on 08/28/2015 7:36:26 AM PDT by archy
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