For Alison
The Murder of a Young Journalist and a Father's Fight for Gun Safety
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Narrated by:
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Andy Parker
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Keith Sellon-Wright
About this listen
On August 26, 2015, Emmy Award-winning 24-year-old reporter Alison Parker was murdered on live television, along with her colleague, photojournalist Adam Ward. Their interviewee was also shot but survived.
In the wake of his daughter's murder, Andy Parker became a national advocate for commonsense gun safety legislation. The night of the murder, with his emotions still raw, he went on Fox News and vowed to do "whatever it takes" to end gun violence in America. Today, he is a media go-to each time a shooting rocks the national consciousness, and has worked with a range of other crusaders, like Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Lenny Pozner, whose son was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School and brought suit against Alex Jones and Infowars, who claimed the shooting was staged. In For Alison, Parker shares his work as a powerhouse battling gun violence and gives a plan for commonsense gun legislation that all sides should agree on. He calls out the NRA-backed politicians blocking the legislation, shares his fight against "truthers", who claim Alison's murder was fabricated, and reveals what's ahead in his fight to do whatever it takes to stop gun violence.
Parker's story is one of great loss, but also resilience, determination, and a call to action.
©2019 Andy Parker (P)2019 TantorMaybe the anger at the hiring of the killer could have been addressed in a booklet for any and all human resources across the world but it felt misplaced.
there are good people and bad people....bad people impact multitudes of good people. the real failures are how we understand and deal with people the first time mental health issues appear.
we are lost, as a world....and so hung up on the rights of each other, we continue to avoid the topic and solutions...and the huge costs...of dealing with the 10% or maybe 20% of damaged people who inflict their anger and pain into the lives and souls of good people.
I have stronger feelings and beliefs about guns. people shoot them but people sell them. there should never be the kinds of guns used in battles and enforcement into the hands of angry youth and adults...or anyone. it is ridiculous.
I stopped listening after the commenting on the human resources hiring the killer....bad people who damage lives of good people also distort the answers to the problems.
I hope all the good people directly related to this painful event can find peace.
sad in many ways
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