Slain Reporter's Father Demands 'Coward' Politicians Take Up Gun Control [View all]
Source: Huffington Post
Andy Parker, the father of slain WDBJ journalist Alison Parker, is demanding that politicians restrict access to firearms, saying he will personally become a crusader for this issue if need be.
"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 an interview with CNN's "New Day."
Walsh created "America's Most Wanted" and became a prominent victims' rights advocate after his son was murdered in 1981.
Alison Parker, 24, was a journalist with WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia. On Wednesday morning, she and her cameraman, Adam Ward, 27, were gunned down during a live broadcast. The gunman, whom police have identified as former station employee Vester Lee Flanagan, also filmed the shooting and put footage of it up on social media.
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