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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.

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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

Aaron Zelman dies and the news wastes time covering the moronic opinions of this bedwetting worthless POS.


81 posted on 01/03/2011 6:04:49 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: wjcsux

I have an idea. Why don’t we ban guns from the VT campus?

Wait.....they were already banned. That idea didn’t work


82 posted on 01/03/2011 6:09:53 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Blue Collar Christian
[Can I say “douchebag” on FR?]

Five times, evidently.

Worth repeating.

83 posted on 01/03/2011 8:14:42 AM PST by CarryaBigStick (My office is an Airtractor 402)
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To: CarryaBigStick

No doubt.


84 posted on 01/03/2011 8:38:57 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Be instrumental in the REVIVAL that will heal our land. ><BCC>)
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To: The Cajun
Maybe he'll get the Gunny as his shrink. ;)

Ohhhh, I'd pay big money to see that!!!

Right here you go!

85 posted on 01/04/2011 4:47:43 PM PST by archy (I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!)
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