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