Colin Goddard, Virginia Tech Shooting Survivor, Fights to Tighten Gun Laws

This is relates to a Documentary “Living for 32” about one of the survivors of the Va Tech massacre and his journey to being a gun control advocate.

I want to see this…

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.

Living for 32

Colin Goddard was shot four times during the Virginia Tech rampage but survived. Now, he’s working to tighten a loophole in the gun laws.

“Virginia Tech happening every single day is pretty powerful,” said Goddard, one of 17 wounded people to survive the massacre. He was shot four times and still carries bullet fragments in his hips and knee.

Maria Cuomo Cole and Kevin Breslin agreed. With her money and encouragement and his direction, the two scions of New York royalty — she’s the daughter and sister of two governors and the wife of fashion designer Kenneth Cole, he’s the son of legendary journalist Jimmy Breslin — convinced Goddard to let them tell the story of what happened on April 16, 2007.

The result is “Living for 32.”

via Colin Goddard, Virginia Tech Shooting Survivor, Fights to Tighten Gun Laws.