Alison Parker’s Father: ‘We’ve Got to Do Something About Crazy People Getting Guns’

The colleagues, families, and loved ones of Alison Parker and Adam Ward, the two WDBJ employees shot and killed on live TV today, have been publicly mourning and talking about how wonderful the two of them were. Parker’s father released a statement earlier today saying their family is dealing with “unbearable” grief and how Alison’s life was “cruelly extinguished by yet another crazy person with a gun.”

Andy Parker appeared tonight on Fox News, alongside Chris Hurst, the man who Parker had planned to marry, to speak with Megyn Kelly about what kind of person she was.

But at one point, Parker wanted to make it clear that he has some strong views about actually doing something, telling Kelly, “We’ve got to do something about crazy people getting guns.”

He lamented how in a week from now, the news will completely move on and “everybody’s gonna forget” this shooting. But Parker said he spoke with Governor Terry McAuliffe, a gun control advocate, and he told McAuliffe about “shaming legislators into doing something about closing loopholes and background checks.”

Watch the video below, via Fox News:

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