Couldn’t we loose him also?
Sympathy for him as a grieving father, but absolutely no sympathy at all for him sloughing responsibility and waving his kid's bloody shirt.
He keeps up with this public call for gun control and he will begin to lose empathy.
There’s a good chance his son would be alive today, if others had been armed. Now he wants to disarm all the others.
“....before going on to become a criminal DEFENSE lawyer”
All I needed to know to not bother reading nay further.
What about drugs (SSRIs), Mr. Martinez?
OH, he’s criminal defense lawyer.
I get it.
Hey, grieving father.
“Grieve.” PRAY for your son’s soul.
That’s my suggestion.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Is anyone else sick of this guy..seriously, the moment I saw him on TV my libtard radar went off..he can’t grieve for his murdered son, instead he uses his son’s tragic death to push for a ban on guns..Hey Martinez..I got a message for you..SCREW YOU
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
What did I read lately? Your loss does not trump my COnstitutional rights?
I don’t blame the system, I blame the person(s). But then, I have a sane, rational mind.
for a democrat, nothing is more important than the ‘agenda’. All too often we see political visionaries dancing or campaigning on top of their ‘loved one’s’ coffin.
It is always the gun that did the crime, not some drug altered whack job.
This idiot does not sympathy, he wants gun control. He sacrificed his some to the cause and now he wants results. He is not interested in reducing violence, He wants guns eliminated. He knows the answer to the problem and it is settled science.
Sick sick sick people.
You know, I may be painted insensitive, but what kind of father forgoes grief in favor of a political agenda?
“we are all to blame” for the death of his 20-year-old son.
“We are all responsible....for racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia, etc.”
“If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.”
Tired liberal bilgewater brought to you by the Community of Conscience for the last fifty f*****g years! Sick of it!
Martinez vowed that he’s not going away. He said his training as a lawyer explains, in part, why he has not retreated from public view as many parents do after such a tragedy.
“We are tough people,” Martinez said of himself and Christopher’s mother, Caryn Johnson Michaels, a deputy district attorney in San Luis Obispo. (The couple separated when Christopher was young.) “Caryn was in charge of the sex-crime unit. We fight.”
I saw this idiot on tv yesterday. Loud mouth bonehead. I really don’t care if his son was killed by a crazy kid or not. This guy’s values contributed to it.
After the news conference, Martinez told reporters to train their cameras on him as he delivered a biting, 80-second speech attacking “craven” politicians and the National Rifle Association.
While Martinez said he is angered by the public’s willingness to accept mass murder as a way of life in America, he said he is not mad at Rodger’s parents.
Martinez said he hopes to meet with Rodger’s father, Peter Rodger, a Hollywood director and photographer, and enlist him in his fight to change gun laws. Peter Rodger and his attorney did not respond to a request for interviews.
“I’ve been told that the shooter’s father has said he wanted to devote his life to making sure that doesn’t happen again. I share that with him,” Martinez said. “He’s a father. I’m a father. He loved his son. I love my son. His son died. My son died.”
Martinez also said he is not angry with either the mental-health system or the sheriff’s deputies, who in April visited Elliot Rodger’s apartment after his family notified them, concerned about dark, brooding videos he had posted on YouTube.
Martinez reserved his anger for the NRA, saying he has no understanding for the group’s position on automatic and semiautomatic weapons after a series of mass murders involving such weapons.
“I’m angry with the leadership of the NRA who always want to characterize this as if it’s a lone madman. That it’s an act of nature we have to tolerate,” he said. “I am angered by how they have worked to normalize this.”
All of the MSM headlines refer to Shootings and also 7 killed.
Well, while there are 7 dead, one of them, the killer, killed himself. Even more interesting, 3 of the 6 people murdered were stabbed to death. So, where is the demand to outlaw knife possession? Lastly, this murderer attempted to kill several more people by using his BMW. Fortunately, he failed but did manage to injure several more people. Where is the demand to outlaw BMW possession?
If my memory serves me, several years ago a person drove down a busy pedestrian lined street one evening attempting to kill and maim as many people as he could. As I recall, he was partially successful. If I am correct, did that not take place in Isla Vista as well???
How about I’m sorry your kid was a homicidal maniac but I’m still not giving up my guns.