My daughter was killed by a shooter. None of us want Republicans’ thoughts and prayers

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Our country is standing at the confluence of what I call “guns and Google”: the evil symbiotic relationship between gun violence and social media. For years I’ve maintained that Facebook and Google profit from the video of my daughter Alison Parker’s televised murder in 2015 and violate what they advertise to the public — that they don’t allow violent content on their platforms. Even in the face of seemingly non-stop mass shootings — the latest in Tulsa this morning, at a hospital campus — so many members of the GOP turn a blind eye and maintain that any reasonable gun legislation is tantamount to “taking away the rights of law-abiding citizens to defend themselves”. S.2992, the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, and S.2710, the Open App Markets Act, would ban Facebook and Google, as well as Amazon and Apple, from acting like gatekeepers of information and competition.