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A father’s account of the story that captivated America, the murder of his daughter, reporter Alison Parker, on live television, and his inspiring fight for commonsense gun laws in the aftermath.
On August 26, 2015, Emmy Award–winning twenty-four-year-old reporter Alison Parker was murdered on live television, along with her colleague, photojournalist Adam Ward. Their interviewee was also shot, but survived. People watching at home heard the gunshots, and the gunman’s video of the murder, which he uploaded to Facebook, would spread over the internet like wildfire.
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. Senator Tim Kaine, also a fierce advocate for commonsense gun laws, contributes a moving foreword.
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"Andy Parker is an angry man, and I don’t blame him one bit. A well written book about unspeakable tragedy and a family’s response to make things better. If people listened to Mr. Parker, we’d move beyond, “They want to take my gunsâ€, and into common sense."
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For Alison The Murder of a Young Journalist and a Father Fight for Gun Safety Andy Parker Senator Tim Kaine Ben R Williams Books Reviews :
For Alison The Murder of a Young Journalist and a Father Fight for Gun Safety Andy Parker Senator Tim Kaine Ben R Williams Books Reviews
- Losing a child would be heartbreaking. Losing a child to violence is horrendous, but having your child murdered on live TV and knowing that videos of her death are there to view at the click of a mouse is both heartbreaking and unimaginable.
Andy and Barbara Parker know that heartbreak and deal with it every single day. For Alison tells the story of what it feels like to lose a child to preventable gun violence. It is the story of a father’s fight for gun reform to keep guns from mentally unstable people. This book tells the story of a rising star in television whose life was ended tragically, along with her friend and photographer Adam Ward.
This book is also about “the club no one wants to join.†Unfortunately, since Alison’s death, hundreds more have been murdered and more families have joined this club.
Parker talks also about events he’ll never experience, such as walking Alison down the aisle and seeing her happily married. Parker is honest and often blunt, but he is definitely a man with a mission to protect others from the loss and pain that he and Barbara live with daily.
The first 3 chapters are a hard read. I had to take breaks because I couldn’t read through my tears. It’s important to note that this is not a book about taking away everyone’s guns. It’s about his daughter, his life, and his platform gun reform—keeping guns away from unstable people. - I reading it now. I’m having to stop every little bit, though. The emotion is so raw, I have to stop and center myself in order to continue reading. Andy Parker takes you inside his head, and it is almost as though you are experiencing that devastating time just as he did.
This is indeed a club nobody wants to join, but due to Andy’s gifted storytelling it’s quite easy to put yourself in his shoes and experience this horror right along with him.
It’s a wonderful book!
I agree with Lawrence O’ Donnell, it’s just as though you are sitting at Andy’s kitchen table just listening to him tell you the story.
We don’t have to live this way, and after reading this book, you will be motivated to do something about it! - Andy Parker pays beautiful tribute to his murdered daughter Alison, painting an intimate portrait of an ambitious young journalist with remarkable opportunities ahead of her (as well as marriage to a wonderful man). Parker also provides insight on the grief process of gun violence survivors, candidly admitting his own struggles. But what ultimately comes through every page of this book is Parker's fierce determination to honor Alison by preventing future acts of gun violence. His willingness to speak truth to power as part of that process is admirable and will inspire. A terrific book for those seeking to understand the role of victims and survivors in America's gun violence prevention movement.
- Andy Parker is an angry man, and I don’t blame him one bit. A well written book about unspeakable tragedy and a family’s response to make things better. If people listened to Mr. Parker, we’d move beyond, “They want to take my gunsâ€, and into common sense.
- It is, of course, impossible to truly know what Barbara and Andy Parker experienced after the tragic and senseless murder of their precious daughter, Alison. But Andy's raw, honest, and sometime hard to read account comes as close as humanly possible to sharing that experience, and the experience of everyone who's lost a loved one to gun violence, in a way that makes it real and very personal to the reader. Most of all, this book removes all doubt that gun violence will happen again and again and, one day, it may happen to you unless all of us do our part in ending it.
- Andy Parker has hit the nail on the head with this look into his personal trial of horrendous loss. He uses the unfathomable pain he suffers after his daughter is shot on live television during an interview into a campaign against the gun lobbyists and political figures that can change the laws. His goal is to make every citizen safe from ever having to experience what he and his wife Barbara did. His slogan is "Whatever it takes." and Parker is working it like he means it. The book is a difficult read if you are affected by emotions being ripped open. The Parker's loss is written through Andy's eyes. I never felt so involved as I did with his descriptive narrative of how he made it through those first three days and then beyond. What he did after that is amazing and inspiring . Good read, I recommend this book.
- Andy Parker's pointed and raw commentary on gun violence, social media, and conspiracy theorists in the wake of his daughter's murder on live television is gut-wrenching, painful, and an absolute must-read for anyone who thinks change needs to happen in the United States.
I can't put the book down, and I hate that I can't. It's raw and breaks your heart, but it is written in such a way that you have to read more about a broken father navigating the cruel waters after gun violence took away his only daughter. - As I read this book, I found myself shutting down at times. Reading Andy Parker’s own words of his experience took me to the edge of the cliff. I had to back away or I would start crying and screaming, imagining the loss of my own children; knowing the despair would be so much worse if it actually happened. Most of the time we protect ourselves from these intense feelings. But we need to stop looking away and see the mass casualties around us from so much gun violence. More guns have not reduce the number of deaths from murder, suicide or accidents involving guns. In spite of what the IRA says, the number is growing. We are not safer. Sane, reasonable people need to read this book to trigger the kind of reaction that gets them, us, everyone, to act.
