Two of the most heartbreaking photos you will see all year
by David Atkins
The father of the Isla Vista shooter met with the outspoken father of one of the victims:
The fathers of both young men, Peter Rodger and Richard Martinez, spoke out after the shooting and decided to meet one another.
Photos released today show the men clasping hands and hugging during that meeting, which occurred on June 1 in Santa Barbara. The photos were released today by RALLY, an issue advocacy firm.
"We plan to work together so other families such as ours will not suffer as ours have," Martinez told ABC News affiliate KEYT-TV. "This was a private conversation between grieving fathers who've reached common ground."
Here are two of the photos, courtesy photographer Simon Astaire:
Any politician who looks into the eyes of these two men and does nothing to curb the proliferation of guns in America deserves universal scorn and public shaming. It's time to finally do something at long last so that no one else has to die to preserve the mass murder fantasies of racists, end-times nuts and anti-government paranoiacs.
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