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Thousand Oaks parents: ‘I don’t want prayers. I don’t want thoughts. I want gun control.’
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It wasn’t until noon on Thursday that a police officer told them the news: Their 27-year-old son, Telemachus Orfanos, was dead.
That marked the end of one grim ritual, and the beginning of another, as the Orfanos parents channeled their private anguish into a public cry for gun control — a cry that has echoed from Aurora to Newtown and beyond.
But what distinguished their plea was an utter disavowal of the stock response to the violence that claimed their son’s life.
“I don’t want prayers. I don’t want thoughts. I want gun control," Susan Orfanos said on local TV. |
Comment by:
PHORTO
(11/9/2018)
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Hey. You live in California. You've GOT gun control
How's that workin' for ya? |
Comment by:
jac
(11/9/2018)
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I was going to make the exact same comment.
The criminals and crazy people will always find a way to get guns. For the hundredth time, gun control laws only affect law abiding citizens that are not the problem. |
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