Posted on 08/28/2015 6:00:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
It’s a shame that poor young woman’s father is a vile, lying, hate-filled, bigoted asswipe.
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I have no idea about background checks for gun purchases but it seems to me if police are called to escort you out of your former employer that fired you that day, some sort of red flag should be recorded.
Killing from a distance is easier.
But the point is that the distance was very short. He could have touched these people.
He has seen his child gunned down as she desperately ran for her life. He hasn’t even had much time to absorb that.
There will be people around trying to use him for their own agenda.
What could have prevented this? He passed a background check.
Do we put difficult nasty people on some sort of list?
I can think of quite a few people who remind me of this guy.
Really ... How DO you prevent this? What possible law could have stopped him?
Take away everyone’s guns?
He’ll get one illegally. Or use a bomb. Or a knife.
He also said he thinks he might need to get a gun now that he is in the public eye, but denied getting any death threats... I watched part of an interview he did. I feel very bad for the victims, less bad for people like him.
He’s a frustrated Leftist politician.
He was promised his career would be resuscitated if he would read the copy and wave his daughter’s bloody shirt for the cameras.
That’s all there ever is or will be to this putz.
I’ve always thought it was never a good idea for the media to pursue grieving family in the aftermath of these things.
They aren’t in their right minds. Probably haven’t slept. And there is always that desire for their loved one to not have “died in vain”
A need to assign blame - and then to “fix” things.
The media gobbles up the drama like vultures.
Did you see the video of this crime? It seemed to me very odd that the shooter approached the victims slowly, while recording it with his camera, and none of them took any notice of him. Presumably, there were not many people up and about in that shopping centre at 06h45, but he warranted not a glance.
Later on, he stood behind the camera man aiming the pistol at Ms Parker for what seemed to me like a long while, at a short distance, and still none of them noticed him.
I am not so sure that if any of the victims were armed, it would have done any good.
It’s a Democrat thing. Ideology trumps Family every time.
I agree. I’m an Estate Planning lawyer, and when one of my clients or their loved ones die, one of the first things that I tell the family is not to make any big decisions for at least a few months. Their minds simply cannot function normally with that kind of loss so close in time.
I feel very badly for Andy Parker and his family. I hope that they can derive at least some comfort from the kind of person that Alison was, and the fact that literally millions of people are praying for them. But barring a complete revamping of our mental health system, incidents like this will continue. That, or basically banning guns, which is utterly unacceptable. I hope that he wwill come to understand that this was a horrible tragedy, but one that could not have been prevented without dramatically affecting the most basic rights of millions. You can’t just lock up disagreeable a - holes because they MIGHT hurt someone, nor deny those people and everyone else the right to self-defense. Until we have the knowledge to be CERTAIN that someone is so mentally unstable that they WILL hurt others in the future, there is simply no way to stop horribly tragic incidents like this one without a massive denial of basic rights to millions of innocent people.
i call bs
the murderer was a disgruntled black queer, the perfect storm of unfulfilled over expectations. his self esteem had been raised by first a black president and then the apparent rise in all sorts of gay rights issues. but to him, there was no difference. he was still a loser rather than rich and famous
the reason was at root, he was a black queer loser.
There were no real mental issues....... those are excuses to justify the failure of a queer black man to reach his own expectations
https://drhurd.com/55552-2/
“Having your second amendment and eating it too.”
Where's the LIKE button?
Andy is like most liberals. Anti-gun and he’s not going to let up on being able to use his daughters dead body to profit. He’s probably already being put on speaking dates and the obituary announcing a funeral for his daughter hasn’t even been planned.
The survivor said she didn’t see him because the light on the camera is so bright it blinded her from seeing behind the camera man.
The shooter probably knew they couldn’t see him.
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