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Virginia Tech Survivor Is 'Living for 32' in War to Tighten Gun Laws
AOL News ^ | 12/31/10 | Andrea Stone

Posted on 01/01/2011 3:19:29 PM PST by Baladas

WASHINGTON -- Surviving the deadliest shooting massacre in U.S. history wasn't enough to make Colin Goddard an advocate for stricter gun laws. Only when he watched another rampage play out on TV two years later did the Virginia Tech graduate realize he had to speak out.

"That took me back to the day like none other," Goddard said of another troubled gunman who killed 14 at an immigration center in Binghamton, N.Y. "I was watching the body count rise and I was like, this is just the same stuff that is happening to another family now. ... I was like, I've got to get involved. I've got to do something about this."

What Goddard did was join the nation's largest gun-control organization, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. At first, he made public-service spots, speaking for the 32 people slain by a deranged gunman on the campus of Virginia Tech. But he also spoke for the 32 people killed every day in gun violence, people whose deaths don't conjure a million hits on Google.

(Excerpt) Read more at aolnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; gungrabbers; obots; schoolshooting; survivors; universityofva; vatech
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To: Baladas
I was like, I've got to get involved.

Are the rest of you, too, repelled by this "I was like"? It seems to me that it is used by people unable to form an English sentence.

41 posted on 01/01/2011 4:14:31 PM PST by OldPossum
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To: OldPossum

But he’s, like, a graduate of a fine state university. If I were his parents, I would be like, “What was he doing for four years? We want our tuition money back!”


42 posted on 01/01/2011 4:16:25 PM PST by Tax-chick (The gifts we have, we are given to share.)
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To: Travis McGee

It’s for a reason that IQ tests typically include questions testing the ability to sequence a cartoon whose panels have been scrambled — basic cause and effect understanding. Where would the little kid put his slogan and a panel showing the crook getting apprehended by a policeman, or by a citizen exercising citizen carry?


43 posted on 01/01/2011 4:18:42 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: Baladas

Until gun prohibitionists totally renounce the use of any weapons to enforce the laws they advocate, they are despicable hypocrites.


44 posted on 01/01/2011 4:19:32 PM PST by sourcery (If true=false, then there would be no constraints on what is possible. Hence, the world exists.)
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To: OldPossum
Perhaps we can find him an appropriate English tutor...


45 posted on 01/01/2011 4:20:59 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Pablo lives jubtabulously!)
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To: Baladas
the nation's largest gun-control organization, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence

In a way, that's reassuring considering the laughable performance of Sarah Brady et al over the years. They are completely unfamiliar with the phrase 'pick your battles' so they devote the same energy to every single gun issue (so-called assault rifles etc.) and as a result they are regarded as mindless hard-liners.

46 posted on 01/01/2011 4:23:01 PM PST by relictele
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To: Baladas

“Maybe he could just MAN UP and get a carry piece.”
I once worked in this huge defense plant. The guards had no guns Of course, guns are illegal in defense plants; meaning everybody is supposed to leave their guns outside. There was a woman named Lola having an affair on night shift. About midnight her husband strides in with a pump-action 12 gauge and asks the guard, “Where’s Lola?” The guard said, “Beam 34G.” He didn’t even lie about where she was. So, her husband stomps down to isle 34 and turns right towards “G.” The guard hot-footed it out the door and called the cops from the plant next door.
Meanwhile, Lola and the affair were out on break in his van, so they (ah-hem) missed the action. The cops piled in and arrested the husband without incident.

From this I learned a lesson. An unarmed guard is good only for giving directions. I actually feel more unsafe at work than any other place because I know nobody has a gun, but pretty much anybody can give directions.

This young man who is crusading against guns might as well be crusading to end evil. We could pass an law against evil and then, suddenly, all would be sweetness and light and safe in the world.


47 posted on 01/01/2011 4:25:23 PM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: Baladas

Hey dumbass ... it was gun control that disarmed anyone nearby that could have stopped that nut job. Chances are he would not have done it at all if he thought that his intended victims could shoot back


48 posted on 01/01/2011 4:32:23 PM PST by clamper1797 (Pray for Obama ... Psalms 109:8)
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To: Baladas

Like, like dude, I don’t really want anyone that feels compelled to use the word “like” excessively in everyday language to decide what Constitutional rights I, as a citizen of the United States of America, get to practice.

Dumb-ass.


49 posted on 01/01/2011 4:35:40 PM PST by DocH (Official Right-Wing Extremist Veteran Seal Of Approval)
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To: Baladas
Fatty Rossiter: Jesus, Clyde, you have three pistols and you only have one arm for Christ's sake.
Clyde: Well I just don't want to be killed for lack of shootin' back.

From Unforgiven. Lot of wisdom in what Clyde has to say.

50 posted on 01/01/2011 4:45:15 PM PST by Snake65
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To: Snake65

John Bernard Books: “First of all,friend, there’s no one up there shooting back at you. Second, I found most men aren’t willing, they bat an eye, or draw a breath before they shoot. I won’t.”

Clyde would have done well to heed The Shootist instead of stocking up on iron mongery. ;)


51 posted on 01/01/2011 4:49:06 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Pablo lives jubtabulously!)
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To: Gil4; LastNorwegian

Not just *more* illegal, but illegal everywhere, so we can all share his pain.


52 posted on 01/01/2011 4:58:45 PM PST by Shimmer1 (Happy New Year)
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To: GeneralisimoFranciscoFranco

yes, but no more than four times


53 posted on 01/01/2011 5:02:18 PM PST by Shimmer1 (Happy New Year)
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To: Baladas

Worst school massacre was in 1927 in Bath, Michigan killed 45 people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster


54 posted on 01/01/2011 5:14:29 PM PST by packrat35 (America is rapidly becoming a police state that East Germany could be proud of!)
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To: Baladas

I’m all for the registration of idiots.

The line forms right behind Colin.

This idiot doesn’t have a clue that when a nut wants to kill a lot of people they don’t need a gun to do it.

At the same time a gun can be used to stop that same nut from killing a lot of people.


55 posted on 01/01/2011 5:15:26 PM PST by IMR 4350
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To: Baladas

Colin, sit down and think man. Guns kill people like spoons made Rosie O’Donnel fat. You can’t legislate around crazy.


56 posted on 01/01/2011 5:18:33 PM PST by Harley (Life is Tough, But It's a Lot Tougher When You're a Liberal. Stop Global Whining Now.)
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To: Baladas

I just can’t understand liberal logic. If I was the only survivor of a massacre, I’d be angry that I hadn’t been able to stop it . . . and I’d be ‘packin’ from that point on.


57 posted on 01/01/2011 5:30:59 PM PST by DesertSapper (God, Family, Country . . . . . . . . . . and dead terrorists!!!)
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To: Baladas

The MSM still infuriates me, using the term “massacre” for Virginia Tech — appropriately — and then refusing to use that term for the thousands murdered in the World Trade Center, in the Pentagon and on Flight 93. How small does murder have to be before it is a “massacre”.

The fact is, the MSM refused the term “massacre” for the Muslim holocaust that took place on 9/11/01 because of who committed the murders. Fact.


58 posted on 01/01/2011 5:57:26 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (We be Fooked.)
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To: Baladas
"Colin Goddard "

He's not man, he's a pussy.

Any MAN would now be an advocate for universal concealed carry.

59 posted on 01/01/2011 6:21:45 PM PST by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: Lazamataz

“Hey dumbass.
RETURN FIRE.”

That would save a lot of lives, but somehow it isn’t emotionally satisfying to Liberals.


60 posted on 01/01/2011 6:31:25 PM PST by devere
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