Guns for me but not for thee.

theguardian.com ^ | Aug 28, 2015 | Jessica Glenza and Amanda Holpuch

[TangoLimaSierra]

The father of Alison Parker, the journalist shot dead on live television on Wednesday, has said that now he is campaigning for gun control he will probably have to get a firearm to defend himself.

Andy Parker, spoke to reporters on Friday after he visited the television station, WDBJ7, where his daughter worked before being murdered - along with cameraman Adam Ward - by their former colleague Vester Lee Flanagan.

He continued to push for stricter gun control in the United States, where decades of mass shootings have failed to produce meaningful reform.

“I want to go to the Virginia legislature and I want them to look me in the eye and tell me why we can’t have a reasonable proposal, any reasonable background checks, the things common sense dictates,” Parker said. “I want them to look me in the eye and tell me why they won’t support that.”

[TangoLimaSierra]

I feel for this guy, but to want to ban guns on one hand then say he needs to get one...

[Tijeras_Slim]

The old liberal “I’ve received death threats.” lie.

[This_far]

Maybe he should move, to Detroit or Chicago

[Guardian Sebastian]

WTH? Is this satire?

[L,TOWM]

No sympathy for the man at all, beyond sympathy for his daughter being the victim of a senseless crime. If he really had somebody after him, they would not broadcast that fact. If somebody wants you dead and is not worried about the consequences, you are not going to get any warning of the fact until you are face to face with your maker.

[Fiddlstix]

Bingo!

[Be Careful]

Having a Body Guard is the same as having a gun. What does Bloomberg have to say about this, he who has a Body Guard?
Guns are for those of us who can’t afford Body Guards. Oh, I forgot......Body Guards are for special people.

[tioga]

Sadly, he sounds like a loon.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I guess blaming a black, homosexual guy for the murder of his daughter would be “homophobic” and “racist”. Better to stick with blaming the inanimate object whose feelings can’t be hurt. This is America! You gotta blame somebody or SOMETHING for everything. Why, it’s the American way!

[EagleUSA]

Gun control does nothing for crime with guns. Re: Chicago, New York, Baltimore, etc.

This is just from the liberal socialist playbook -— another “excuse” to take guns from lawful American citizens.

[ChicagahAl]

I want them to look me in the eye and tell me why they won’t support that.

I want him to look me in the eye and tell me he isn't a far-left loon. (He is.)

Then I want him to go grieve for his daughter and stop trying to politicize her death.

[nhwingut]

I don’t think this guy is mentally stable. He came on FOX News the very might his daughter died and was saying that his mission in life now is gun control. Sorry. But that’s weird behavior.

[so_real]

“I want to go to the Virginia legislature and I want them to look me in the eye and tell me why we can’t have a reasonable proposal, any reasonable background checks, the things common sense dictates,” Parker said. “I want them to look me in the eye and tell me why they won’t support that.”

By what guideline would Flanagan's right to gun ownership have been denied? I've not heard he had a criminal record, so prior conviction would not have done it. Can you deny him a gun because he's black? Can you deny him a gun because he's homosexual? Can you deny him a gun because he hates white people? Can you deny him a gun because he doesn't attend church on Sunday? My heart goes out to the father, but "gun control" would not have saved his daughter. Bad animals are regularly put down, but they do have to be given the opportunity to be bad before being put down.

[SkyDancer]

Considering all the gun laws that are on the books, what other gun laws do they want? Every time there’s a shooting liberals scream for more gun laws.

[DiogenesLamp]

Guns for me but not for thee.

No scumbag. You are "holier than thou." Your Moral crusade will keep you safe.

God! This man needs a beating. He needs to be whipped stupid. What a low life creep.

Instead of treating the correct cause of his daughter's death, (Homosexual kooks who are not locked up in asylums and political correctness) the man is trying to endanger the rest of us to deal with his pain.

3d printing and machining has now made it impossible for guns to be "controlled" by dumb people.

[VeniVidiVici]

Funny how the Guardian doesn’t mention at all that the husband of the wounded woman says he doesn’t blame the gun at all; that it was the shooter’s fault.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

“I want to go to the Virginia legislature and I want them to look me in the eye and tell me why we can’t have a reasonable proposal, any reasonable background checks, the things common sense dictates,” Parker said.

Because we already have all that?

[Seaplaner]

I believe it to be in dreadful taste to use public sympathy over the recently departed to promote an (assumedly) long-held political objective.

Cindy Sheehan comes to mind in this same regard.

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[Thank You Rush]

I don’t think the guy has ever heard Rachel Scott’s father speak about the murder of his daughter at Columbine High School and the testimony he gave in front of Congress. He needs to listen to this man...he knew the guns weren’t the culprit. The decline of America was/is the demon!

[RedMDer]

Geraldo was going off about gun control until Gutfeld stopped him by telling him to come into the Fox studio without his body guard(s) and then he will listen.