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   From: lying-pricks@msnbc.com   
      
   The father of slain television reporter Alison Parker, after   
   taking aim at the gun lobby, now worries he might need a gun of   
   his own.   
      
   Andy Parker acknowledged he might exercise his right to bear   
   arms after unleashing yet another withering attack Friday on the   
   National Rifle Association and timid politicians.   
      
   “I don’t own a gun,” Parker told reporters outside the Roanoke   
   television station where his daughter Alison worked.   
      
   “We don’t have a gun in our family. I’m probably going to have   
   to get one. I mean, sad to say, but I — unfortunately, that’s   
   the world we live in.”   
      
   Parker became a man on a mission in the hours after his 24-year-   
   old daughter and WDBJ-TV cameraman Adam Ward, 27, were gunned   
   down while doing a live interview about tourism for the   
   station’s morning show.   
      
   And now the Collinsville, Va., man is wondering if his efforts   
   make him a target   
      
   “When you’re in the media, as you know, and when you’re taking   
   on an issue like this, there are a lot of people that take   
   exception to what you’re saying,” said Parker, who visited the   
   station with his wife Barbara.   
      
   “So I will probably have to do this. I don’t want to take any   
   chances.”   
      
   The NRA sniped back without mentioning Parker by name, noting   
   that the killer “passed a background check” conducted in   
   Virginia.   
      
   But more information about Flanagan’s troubled past emerged   
   Friday. Evidence and writings seized from the killer’s apartment   
   indicated that he “closely identified” with the 9/11 terrorists,   
   the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office revealed.   
      
   The 41-year-old Flanagan, in a 23-page manifesto faxed to ABC   
   News after the Wednesday morning murders, expressed his   
   admiration for the mass murderers responsible for the shootings   
   at Virginia Tech and Columbine High School.   
      
   Flanagan was fired after just 11 turbulent months at the   
   Roanoke, Va., television station, making threats toward his   
   colleagues after police were called to remove him from the   
   offices.   
      
   Parker urged the assembled media to keep the pressure on pro-gun   
   forces in the wake of the latest multiple killing with a handgun.   
      
   “We need to keep the pressure on the politicians to not be   
   afraid of the NRA,” he declared. “It’s time that we hold these   
   people’s feet to the fire and shame them wherever we can.   
      
   “All we want to do is keep crazy people from getting guns. I   
   guarantee you somebody’s got the answer for this.”   
      
   The distraught dad once again cited his daughter as the   
   motivating source behind what shapes up as a quixotic quest.   
      
   Past efforts, including those after the murder of 20 first-   
   graders and six staffers at Sandy Hook Elementary School, failed   
   to create much change in national or local gun laws.   
      
   “Alison was a force of nature,” said Parker. “She was an   
   absolute force of nature. I think that her life is going to have   
   meaning, not just as a journalist, if we can effect meaningful   
   changes in our gun laws ... This senseless act, this senseless   
   murder will not go in vain.”   
      
   Parker made his comments after speaking with Virginia Gov. Terry   
   McAuliffe, a gun owner who pledged his support.   
      
   “I was pleased that the governor of Virginia has stepped up and   
   been right there with me,” he said. “I would encourage other   
   politicians to be as courageous as he, and so that’s the plan.   
      
   Parker promised that he was in this fight for the long haul.   
      
   “I’m not going to let this drop,” he declared. “Each time you   
   think there’s a tipping point, with Sandy Hook or Aurora, and   
   then nothing gets done.”   
      
   McAuliffe, who appeared on the WDBJ-TV noon newscast after   
   meeting with Parker, seemed convinced that the newly-minted   
   activist would make good on his promise.   
      
   “He’s going to do what he told me, what Alison would have wanted   
   him to do,” said McAuliffe. “He wants to be a very vocal   
   advocate for universal background checks. This is something I’ve   
   advocated and talked about every single day.”   
      
   McAuliffe said he would reintroduce legislation in the state   
   assembly mandating background checks for gun buyers. The   
   Republican-led legislature has rejected his gun control efforts   
   since he took office last year.   
      
   "There are too many guns in America, and there are clearly too   
   many guns in the wrong hands,” he said. “So we're going to   
   continue to do what we can.”   
      
   Parker lobbed some criticism at Virginia’s two U.S. senators,   
   Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, for their failure to contact him in   
   the wake of the double homicide.   
      
   A Warner spokesman said the senator had left a message for   
   Parker earlier Friday, while a Kaine spokeswoman said he was   
   waiting for a more appropriate time to reach out.   
      
   Parker called on the media to pay attention to the gun control   
   issue rather than focusing on the flavor of the week.   
      
   “This can’t be the story for three days, and then it’s, ‘Let’s   
   see what Donald Trump is doing?’” Parker said. “I’m hoping this   
   time is different. She’s one of you guys.”   
      
   http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/father-slain-reporter-   
   alison-parker-gun-article-1.2341114   
      
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   Illegal alien muslim Barack Hussein Obama seizes on this tragedy   
   caused by one of his mentally ill homosexual, black racist   
   supporters, to wave the flags for more gun control.   
                            
      
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