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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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To: FlingWingFlyer

We wouldn’t even know about it.


61 posted on 08/27/2015 6:52:05 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Maybe they should just outlaw the daily news asking the dumbass on the street their opinion bits.
Or, ban rainbow flags or, I know...they should make murder illegal.


62 posted on 08/27/2015 6:55:50 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This dolt is basking in his fifteen minutes and thinking the murder of his girlfriend is the best thing that ever happened to his career.


63 posted on 08/27/2015 6:58:12 PM PDT by KevinB (Barack Obama: Our first black, gay, Kenyan, Socialist, Muslim president!)
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To: FR_addict

Which is a huge indication that the father (and the fiance) of the young woman is a leftist in the beginning, and willing to use his daughter and himself as a tool.


64 posted on 08/27/2015 7:03:51 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
There needs to be some action that is taken out of an event like this

Yes ... we need to end ALL restrictions on citizens arming themselves.

65 posted on 08/27/2015 7:05:06 PM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: West Texas Chuck

I honestly think Alaska would succeed from the union if it came down to it. There are too many veterans and gun owners who absolutely will not comply. Including myself. I will die fighting rather than live on my knees.


66 posted on 08/27/2015 7:10:34 PM PDT by vpintheak (Man up and bring it politicians!)
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To: KevinB

“Let’s have a conversation” is lefty speak for “I see a political opportunity here.” As a white guy, he’s new to protected class status acquired through his connection to the victim. He needs some Obama coaching.

Let this numbskull run for congress and introduce a bill to repeal the 2nd amendment. Otherwise, STFU.


67 posted on 08/27/2015 7:10:43 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This dialogue has been going on since 1968.

Where’s this dude been living?


68 posted on 08/27/2015 7:14:08 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And if the killer had run them down with an SUV on tv would he be demanding car control?


69 posted on 08/27/2015 7:17:15 PM PDT by a fool in paradise ("Psychopathia Sexualis, I'm in love with a horse that comes from Dallas" - Lenny Bruce (1958))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We don’t want to be a gunless Mexico where only the crooked have the guns.


70 posted on 08/27/2015 7:18:27 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; MeshugeMikey; Nachum; GeronL
"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?"

BAN THE MEDIA!

71 posted on 08/27/2015 7:21:20 PM PDT by a fool in paradise ("Psychopathia Sexualis, I'm in love with a horse that comes from Dallas" - Lenny Bruce (1958))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He might also ask for a dialogue with the FCC, EEOC and every other federal alphabet agency that mandates racial quotas—formal and informal—in the workplace. The shooter appears to be little more than an affirmative action hire. His incompetence was a journalist was an issue at every small market station where he (briefly) worked. WDBJ was just as committed to “diversity” as any other broadcast news organization. They needed a little more racial balance on the team, and preferably from someone who would fill the desired squares and work cheap. The killer was making $36,000 a year at the station—not much more than an entry-level salary. Management quickly realized their mistake and got rid of him, only to see two of their staffers pay the ultimate price two years later.

If Flanagan/Williams had been a white guy, he would have never been hired—not with his record of failure in the business.

My deepest sympathies for Mr Hurst and all affected by this senseless crime. But the real causes lie not in the killer’s weapon, but why a deranged megalomaniac wound up in the WDBJ newsroom


72 posted on 08/27/2015 7:21:50 PM PDT by ExNewsExSpook
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Slain TV reporter's boyfriend

Only a pawn in their game.

73 posted on 08/27/2015 7:26:43 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

dear readers,

if it were me that was to be in mourning, in the shoes of this guy, who lost his fiance to a Negro queer, the last thing i would be worried about is ‘gun violence’.

To the guy, yes, you ARE in media, yes, there is always going to be violence in the world, yes, it sucks to be you right now, yes, it was tragic (I’ve seen more of it than you would in your job), so, sure, take a few days, and then grow a pair!


74 posted on 08/27/2015 7:29:37 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Terry L Smith

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


75 posted on 08/27/2015 7:31:13 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Is the Pope Catholic?)
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To: a fool in paradise

It could be worse ya know.

How could that be you may be axing?

At least it wasnt Slain Black Youth Choir Boy Aspiring Rapper Perp’s Botfriend asking for an “end to gun violence”....


76 posted on 08/27/2015 7:43:29 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Genoa
Yes, that is one of mine. Most other originals I concoct don't catch on 😭
77 posted on 08/27/2015 7:43:53 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hey, Chris Hurst, I’m tired of being punished for a crime I had nothing to do with. So go pi$$ up a crooked rope.

In Europe Chrissy, it’s very difficult if not impossible for a citizen to buy a firearm.

Yet the muzzies at the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris and the muzzie on the Amsterdam to Paris train had no trouble obtaining fully automatic weapons, handguns, etc.


78 posted on 08/27/2015 7:44:14 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Liberals are like the Taliban and ISIS....destroying cultural icons they don't like.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

How about a dialogue about not letting blacks own guns?


79 posted on 08/27/2015 7:53:59 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I understand this guy’s temporary insanity is (hopefully) caused by his grief. (Primarily because I’d hate to think that he’s using that beautiful young woman’s death to get his “15 minutes”.)


80 posted on 08/27/2015 7:57:44 PM PDT by glennaro
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