Posted on 09/01/2015 5:43:07 AM PDT by rellimpank
Last Wednesday, my daughter Alison was brutally struck down in the prime of her life by a deranged gunman. Since then, I have stated in numerous interviews with local, national and international media that I plan to make my life's work trying to implement effective and reasonable safeguards against this happening again.
In recent years we have witnessed similar tragedies unfold on TV: the shooting of a congresswoman in Arizona, the massacre of schoolchildren in Connecticut and of churchgoers in South Carolina. We have to ask ourselves: What do we need to do to stop this insanity?
In my case, the answer is: "Whatever it takes."
I plan to devote all of my strength and resources to seeing that some good comes from this evil. I am entering this arena with open eyes. I realize the magnitude of the force that opposes sensible and reasonable safeguards on the purchase of devices that have a single purpose: to kill.
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“What do we need to do to stop this insanity? “
Umm, better mental health screening?
Would the grieving father end auto violence.
>>I plan to devote all of my strength and resources to seeing that some good comes from this evil. I am entering this arena with open eyes. I realize the magnitude of the force that opposes sensible and reasonable safeguards on the purchase of devices that have a single purpose: to kill.
If a black homosexual lunatic attacks you with a multi-purpose machete, you are just as dead.
It would make just as much sense to “do whatever it takes to end live television broadcasts”...
Soon there’ll be the “Parker Bill”. The media has found their gun grabbing representative.
Non Islamic religions have been trying to end violence in general for centuries.
Nice to see him throw his hat in the ring, but if the focus is on guns, it’s seriously misguided.
It would be a BIG help if career criminals were given meaningful sentences with no early parole.
“What do we need to do to stop this insanity? “
More gun laws and tax the rich while you’re at it.
Seriously though, this a hole didn’t even wait until his kid’s corpse was cold before grabbing the spot light to get his 15 minutes of fame. Shame on him.
Is he going to help get Obama out of office?
Pray America is waking
Should be done by now, in the hands of Congress and voted into law by November ... is MY guess.
In fact, all of these ambush cases occurred because no one was assertive.
The Ct school is/was the most obvious.
Makes you wonder if the event was even real.
His grief over his daughter’s death doesn’t give him license to run roughshod over law-abiding gun owners.
We have the Second Amendment. I don’t give a rat’s rear end whether or not Andy Parker approves of it.
My RKBA is not subject to his approval.
This young woman's father, so obviously heartbroken, is simply misguided of course. No one should ever outlive their child. The butcher who killed her, were he lacking a firearm, would have used any weapon from a knife to his bare hands.
Didn’t work for the asshat clown from Cali yet and he still won’t shut his yap. The former criminal defense lawyer dad from the Santa Barbara event. (Is criminal and lawyer redundant?)
Yet another misguided loon. Keep guns away from HIM.
IT IS PEOPLE WHO KILL. The gun, axe, knife, brick, car, drugs, animals, etc. are tools used by sick, deranged, God-less people to act out their frustrations, helplessness, and lack of meaning in life. This world did not simply come together out of space dust. Whittaker Chambers, a communist, looked at his baby girl and realized those perfect little ears were not by accident. They were designed for a purpose, so there must be a Designer. He became a Quaker, left communism, and became a “Witness” to the power of God as he testified before the HUAC.
Or an Islamic terrorist - or even a Black Lives Matter terrorist.
I’m not going to submit to unilateral disarmament at Parker’s whims to allow bad guys to do to me what one bad guy did to his daughter.
Guns don’t kill. People kill people.
End of story.
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