Virginia Dad, “There’s a Link Between Guns And Mental Health”

By Tim

Andy Parker is now widely known as the father of the slain reporter killed on live television. He announced that he will be seeking to become known as an advocate for gun control. It came to light that the shooter was racially motivated and decided to buy the gun in wake of the shooting in Charleston this past June.

“I’m telling you, they messed with the wrong family,” he told CNN’s Jake Tapper Sunday on State of the Union. This person, to me, he doesn’t even register,” Andy Parker said Sunday of Flanagan, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. “What registers is he was mentally disturbed and he was allowed to pass a background check.”

Mr. Parker said that he will be in contact with Mark Kelly, the wife of Gabby Giffords, who was also shot in an attack.

“I’m going to be working on this for a long time. I know that this is not a sprint, it’s a marathon,” he said, adding that he’d work on the issue with Chris Hurst, Parker’s boyfriend and an employee of the same Virginia television station according to Fox 8.

Parker said he and Hurst want to “put this …read more

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