A deranged gunman shot and killed my 24-year-old daughter, journalist Alison Parker, on live television in the summer of 2015.
He ended her promising young life and changed mine forever. In the depths of my grief, I pledged to honour Alison's memory in the best way I could. My wife Barbara and I started a non-profit group to fund arts programmes for under-served children in south-western Virginia, and I began advocating sensible gun safety reforms.
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