Slain reporter’s dad pushes for gun control

We’ve already seen the violations that the “stop and frisk” policy has perpetrated on the residents of New York City. Their interviewee, Vicki Gardner, was wounded but survived.

The television was turned off when the phone started ringing. If you’ve seen an error in our pages, let us know at This email address is being protected from spambots. He hoped for the best, and braced for the worst. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., failed to garner a filibuster-proof 60 votes amid opposition by most Republicans and a handful of pro-gun rights Democrats. “My heart was just sinking”.

His son, Colin, was shot four times in the 2007 shooting that killed 32 people on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The NRA claims that gun control shouldn’t be associated with any emotional outbreak. Meeting Lafferty, whose work she admires, was emotional.

“I come here still in a state of raw and consuming grief”, Parker told the crowd.

The feeling was mutual. “She was on the robotics team”. “She was blond and pretty”.

Less than 24 hours before Parker was scheduled to headline a high-profile Capitol lawn rally, he got a call from a staffer with House Judiciary Chairman Robert W. Goodlatte. “I’m not here because I want to be here”.

Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Alison Parker’s father, Andy Parker, have vowed to press for tighter gun restrictions. “And I could contact those people and 80 or 90 percent of those guns are going to be sold without a background check”. You don’t have to feel helpless as you watch the morning news.

“This is just one simple step”, she said.

Andy Parker is already making good on his promise to fight on his daughter’s behalf.

“There’s nothing contradictory between background checks and a supporter of the 2nd Amendment”, says Senator Mark Warner (D-Virginia), who spoke at the rally.

He was among a series of family members of gun violence victims to speak at the event, held 1,000 days after the December 2012 Newtown mass shooting.

The measure would create an exemption to the “guns in parks” law for ticketed events at public parks and any site used by a professional sports team for training or games, he said.

The shooting reignited calls from gun control advocates to close “loopholes” in the law that allow people to purchase guns online and at gun shows without background checks. Alison’s boyfriend, Chris Hurst, who is an anchor at WDBJ, plans to join in the effort.

“I’m so emotionally drained”, he said, breaking down once more.

Little attention has been given to the daily toll of gun deaths that are intentionally self-inflicted by those who are looking for a quick and easy way to take their own lives.