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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?"

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; guncontrol; guns; secondamendment; vesterflanagan; vesterleeflanagan; virginia; wdbj
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I believe that the person he needs to "dialog" with has assumed room temperature.
1 posted on 08/27/2015 5:59:58 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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


2 posted on 08/27/2015 6:01:42 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The weapon here wasn’t a gun.

It was gummint mandates in broadcasting for affirmative action hires.


3 posted on 08/27/2015 6:01:43 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Here’s the dialogue.

The guy who sot your girlfriend is dead.

I’m sorry for your loss.

I’m not giving up my civil rights, so don’t ask.

Crime and criminals are a fact of this world.

Arm yourself and be prepared.

You never know when your number will be called.


4 posted on 08/27/2015 6:02:15 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What would the two murdered people say about taking the ability to defend yourself away from law abiding citizens?


5 posted on 08/27/2015 6:02:26 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The US Dept of State hires for guards at Benghazi were also subject to affirmative action incentives.

Not sure you’re going to believe this, but what they wanted to ideally hire was Arabic-speaking homosexuals with heavy combat experience.

Sounds like a joke, right? It sounds MADE-UP.

Right, that is a fact.


6 posted on 08/27/2015 6:03:21 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Mental. Illness.


7 posted on 08/27/2015 6:03:28 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Please donate to FR)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

chris could lead by example by posting a sign outside of his home that says “GUN FREE ZONE.”


8 posted on 08/27/2015 6:03:29 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Stupid libs can’t even mourn their own dead properly.


9 posted on 08/27/2015 6:03:39 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: gaijin

US DOJ recruiting insane dwarf lawyers:

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/08/21/justice-department-recruits-dwarfs/

That one ALSO sounds made-up right?

Yet behold —it’s TRUE.


10 posted on 08/27/2015 6:05:34 PM PDT by gaijin
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Slain TV reporter's boyfriend asks for dialogue over gun violence.

Is he suggesting that other types of violence are OK?

Your girlfriend was killed by a gun, dude. She was killed by a speckled black homosexual.

11 posted on 08/27/2015 6:05:56 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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“but what they wanted to ideally hire was Arabic-speaking homosexuals with heavy combat experience.”

That is really true? Sheesh!


12 posted on 08/27/2015 6:06:06 PM PDT by Jaxmum
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To: Alberta's Child
Sorry about that. "Your girlfriend wasn't killed by a gun ..."
13 posted on 08/27/2015 6:06:56 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Is it because we are in the media?” No, it’s because the shooter was deranged and was angry at your girlfriend over whatever the reason was. Don’t look for a deeper meaning.


14 posted on 08/27/2015 6:07:26 PM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Yeah, the father’s point is that it was too easy for this crazy guy to get a gun. I don’t think most of us would have a problem with some improvements on that issue. I don’t want it to be easy for some hotheat racial time-bomb to get a piece.


15 posted on 08/27/2015 6:09:34 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

When there’s a concerted effort to keep a segment of society angry, they’re going to find ways to “avenge” themselves.

If he didn’t have a gun, he’d have probably waited till she was doing a live shot in a parking lot and ran her over. on came


16 posted on 08/27/2015 6:09:58 PM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: Timber Rattler

...Stupid libs can’t even mourn their own dead properly...

Do you have some inside information about the actual politics of the two dead people, or are you just spouting off without facts?


17 posted on 08/27/2015 6:11:23 PM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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Slain TV reporter's boyfriend asks for dialogue over gun violence

OK "the boyfriend"...why was she not trained and carrying?

Why did you not insist she be protected when going into dangerous situations?

Are you trained and armed, and why the Hell not?

Dialogue away.

18 posted on 08/27/2015 6:11:31 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republican Freed the Slaves" month.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Perhaps,instead,we should have a conversation about the grudges that so many members of the victim class have.


19 posted on 08/27/2015 6:11:33 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Just vote “ it’s the best revenge’ don’t be shooting people people.


20 posted on 08/27/2015 6:11:39 PM PDT by Recompennation
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