VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Chris Parker is the type of Virginian whom Democrats hope to get to the polls next month to help them flip the legislature and usher in a wave of stricter gun laws. Parker leans Democratic and believes there “definitely” needs to be more gun control, including limits on military-style assault weapons. And he has a personal connection to one of the state’s most deadly mass shootings. As a construction contractor, Parker’s work used to take him to the Virginia Beach municipal building where a gunman killed a dozen people this summer, though he doesn’t know anyone who was shot. But Parker, like many Virginians in an off-year election with no statewide candidates, isn’t paying much attention to next month’s contests. “I stay so busy. I probably won’t even go out and vote, to be honest,” Parker said. Democrats and national gun-control groups founded by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Arizona congresswoman Gabby Giffords are spending millions on TV ads, canvassing and other efforts to get people like Parker to vote. In one TV ad, a survivor of the Virginia Beach shooting directly criticizes a Republican senator for not doing more to curb gun… Read full this story
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