Father Of Slain Journalist Alison Parker: We Need To Keep Pressure On Politicians Not To Be Afraid of the NRA

[DeepModem Mom]

ANDY PARKER (speaking to media): We've got to do whatever we can to hold these people's feet to the fire and not be afraid of the NRA fighting any kind of reasonable legislation tooth and nail. We're not trying to take people's guns away. All we want to do is keep crazy people from getting guns. And there's got to be a way to do it, and I'm going to dig down in the weeds and start to learn the process, it's too raw for me yet, but I guarantee you somebody's got the answer for this and somebody's got a reasonable answer for this, and I'm going to find it, and I'm going to make it happen....

PARKER: I'm hoping that this time is different because she's, as I mentioned, she's one of you guys. She's one of you guys, and not that that makes you special but you have a voice and you need to use that voice and we need to keep the pressure on the politicians to not be afraid of the NRA. I mean listen the best thing that the NRA could do right now - most of their members support reasonable gun control. The membership does. But the politicians that they get money from the NRA, they don't do anything, and it's time that we hold these people's feet to the fire and shame them wherever we can. I want to go to the Virginia legislature and I want them to look me in the eye and tell me why can't we have a reasonable proposal, any reasonable background check, the things that common sense dictates. I want them to look me in the eye and tell me why they don't want to support that.

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1. Roger That - And Their Membership As Well

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[DeepModem Mom]

2. It's shameful that that organization holds such power over politicians...

and such power, period. I Tweeted something today and attached "#gunsense" to the Tweet, and I got so many combative replies! Since I don't "fight" online, I just blocked them all.

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3. Agree Completely About The NRA And Their Membership

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[flamin lib]

7. The NRA does not represent it's members the great majority of which support UBC,

broadening the criteria for prohibited persons, improving reporting to the NICS system, and a host of other sensible gun legislation.

Since 1970 the NRA gets a large majority of it's financial support from gun and ammo manufacturers. N?RA management does not give a shit about the membership, only the manufacturers.

[Iliyah]

4. There is actual footage of the shooting.

Knowing to the news station that this person needed help even the ones who were killed could not believe what was happening.

[DashOneBravo]

5. IMO he has the right to be outraged

He lost his daughter.

"All we want to do is to keep crazy people from getting guns."

I think you'll find most gun owners would agree.

[ellisonz]

6. My condolences to Mr. Parker.

I would challenge him though that the NRA membership goes far beyond the formal, what I like to call the NRA type. People who are just disturbingly in love with their ability to kill people at the pull of a trigger. I hate to break it to him, but they won't listen.

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8. In Kansas City this weekend, three children have been shot.

One on Friday, one on Saturday and one on Sunday.
How many more people are going to be shot to keep the gun manufactures in record profits before the rest of us rise up and do something constructive, to get this country's excess weapons problem under control?
The murders at WDBJ needs to be a catalyst for common sense gun control to stop the obscene number of gun shootings/killings every day in this country.