Posted on 08/28/2015 3:17:12 AM PDT by markomalley
Once again, the left has exploited the ruminations of a grieving father to push gun control.
In an interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo Thursday, Andy Parker, the father of slain WDBJ journalist Alison Parker, demanded that his daughter's death at the hands of a murderer may be a cause to bolster politicians into passing more gun control laws.
"If I have to be the John Walsh of gun control and -- look, I'm for the Second Amendment, but there has to be a way to force politicians that are cowards and in the pockets of the NRA to come to grips and make sense -- have sensible laws so that crazy people can't get guns. It can't be that hard," said Parker in reference to John Walsh, the man who created America's Most Wanted.
Parker also demanded that politicians get to work passing this gun legislation right away rather than giving him time to grieve.
"[P]oliticians from the local level to the state level to the national level, they sidestep the issue. They kick the can down the road. This can't happen anymore," he said. "And I know that the NRA, their position is going to be -- I can hear it now. They're going to say, 'Oh gee, well, if they were carrying, this never would have happened,'" Parker said.
"I've got news for you. If Alison or Adam had been caring an AK-47 strapped around their waist, it wouldn't have made any difference," he continued. "They couldn't have seen this thing coming. So I don't want to hear that argument from the NRA, and you know that's going to happen. And I'm going to take it on."
Andy Parker's statement echoes similar statements made by Richard Martinez, the father who lost his son during a shooting near the University of Santa Barbara in 2014. Both have now been used by the left to push gun control.
It's cowardly to avoid the real issue of the murderer's violent racism, leftism, and faggotry. Because that's the reason she was murdered.
He wanted to murder white people.
You wrote: "Too much of a punk to admit that the problem was his daughter's whiteness."
I reiterate: "Whiteness" is not a problem. Nor is "blackness". Nor, to pick a particularly egregious example from XX Century history, is "Jewishness" a problem.
The problem is evil men like this racist leftist sodomite murderer, who kill people with immutable characteristics they don't like.
I have said that this was the motive of her murderer-to kill whitre people.
And the problem, here, is a leftist racist sodomite murderer. Not some innocent victim's race. Let's put the blame where it belongs: on the perpetrator.
I am saying that her father lacks the courage to face that fact, and speak out against it. It's easier for him to blame guns instead.
Quite so.
He's violent.
white people.
He's racist.
And that is the problem.
In the big picture, the problem is not that we have white people in America.
The problem is we tolerate violent, racist, murderous thugs.
And with this, I shall cease belaboring the point.
“Can’t be sure, but I think I would have seen him coming.”
Situational awareness.
Careless around my world means snakebit.
Third prize is: you're fired.
Yowza...Sadly we are coming to that curtailment of the 1st Amendment also....
I want deranged leftist moonbat control.
He may be a leftist, but to politicize his daughters death within the week she died makes him a callous weasel.
Just once I’d like to see the #NationalSocialistLeft forgo the crass use of a tragedy for political gain.....
Yeah I know, I’m just dreaming...
I doubt he’s even thinking like this at all. When people lose loved ones like this, they go into a kind of shock. They almost seem calm in comparison to what others think they should be feeling. He is likely trying to find something, anything that will bring him feelings of comfort and a sense of control. What he is choosing may be completely wrong headed and something we disagree with profoundly, but I think the better way is to show this guy some mercy and give him the benefit of the doubt regarding his intentions. Don’t assume he is callous just because you don’t like what he has to say, that just makes you look callous toward a man who just had his daughter murdered on TV.
What this man is going to find out is that it will only take a matter or weeks, maybe even days before this story is replaced by another and these murders are forgotten in the minds of many. Any effort he wishes to make on behalf of her memory will also evaporate when he is no longer of any use to our political class. It is all very sad, but true. This poor man has a long road ahead of him and will likely never get over his loss. Pray for him.
Yeah, I have been praying for their families since it happened. Have you?
Maybe he is numb. Maybe he is callous. Unless you know him, you don’t know.
I think it’s most likely that he’s a hard nut to crack; feeling rage and desire for revenge that is misdirected into politics (which might be war to him. It is to many Marxists). The man who killed his daughter is dead and he can’t fantasize about killing him. He’s probably a lot like the killer in a way. That man killed in the name of his misdirected sex pervert and racist (Marxist) politics. It was war to him; a race war.
The head of the NRA gets the misdirected rage from some carrying a thirst for revenge from kooks like this. I hope this one doesn’t have a gun and gets counseling before he hurts himself or others. He’s defiantly out of wack. I never got this vibe from Gabby Jefferds and her husband.
This is just sad. Just as sad i am sure there are politicians who are more than willing to exploit this guys grief.
I don’t know the man, but I have a son a little older than his daughter and I can’t imagine what I might do and say if something like this happened to him. I just think it’s unseemly to go after a grieving father this soon after his daughter has died. I doubt his is thinking straight, how could any parent?
The father is simply a useful idiot to be a pawn of the left in an attempt to take away our rights using his crocodile tears.
Yes, I said crocodile tears. Anyone who can get on TV mere hours after their daughter is murdered and start pushing an agenda for gun control.....that simply is not normal.
He can RIH as far as I am concerned.
I doubt his is thinking straight, how could any parent?
Have you prayed for him yet?
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