Andy Parker has campaigned for restrictions on guns since his daughter, Alison, was shot and killed by a former co-worker in August during a live report from Smith Mountain Lake. In late October, he was forced to apologize for a post to the Facebook page of state Sen. William M. Stanley Jr., R-Franklin County, that concluded, “WHEN YOU SEE ME AGAIN, YOU BEST WALK THE OTHER WAY LEST I BEAT YOUR LITTLE ASS WITH MY BARE HANDS.”