May 4, 2011
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Gun Violence Survivor Speaks Out
Former Virginia Tech student to
share views, film documentary
survivor, and goes undercover to
gun shows to demonstrate how
anyone, including felons and the
mentally ill, can purchase a gun with­
out even showing ID.
C easefire Oregon Education
Foundation Board Member Jason
Kilgore said Goddard’s activism to
do something about gun violence is
made all the more relevant by a pro­
posal before the Oregon Legisla­ lence and gun control with Colin
ture to allow guns on Oregon school Goddard will take place on Friday,
campuses, grade schools and uni­ May 6 at 7 p.m. at the Multnomah
versities alike.
Friends Meeting House, 4312 S.E.
The free screenings of the “Liv­ Stark St.; and on Saturday, May 7 at
ing for 32” documentary and subse­ 10 a.m. at Augustana Lutheran
quent discussion about gun vio­ Church, 2710N.E. 14th Ave.
Colin Goddard
Ceasefire Oregon is sponsoring
two local events where the public is
invited to watch the documentary
"Living for 32" and participate in a
discussion of gun violence with
Colin Goddard, a shooting survivor
of the Virginia Tech Massacre.
On a snow y, w indy day in
Blacksburg, Va., in 2007, a mentally-
ill gunman locked the doors of Norris
Hall at Virginia Tech University and
proceeded to go room-to-room,
shooting students and professors.
Forty-nine people were shot. Thirty-
two of them died. Then the gunman
shot himself to death.
One of those wounded was a 21 -
year-old named Colin Goddard.
Goddard played a unique role in the
horrific drama that played out on
that blustery April day: he was the
only person within the building to
call the police.
Urged by his French professor to
dial 911 as the crackle of gunfire
came closer to the door of their
classroom, Goddard made the call,
then the gunman burst into the room.
Colin was shot four times and still
has three of those bullets in him.
Living for 32 is a powerful and
thought-provoking documentary
about Goddard and his efforts to
bring awareness to the issue of gun
violence in America.
In the film, he examines his change
in thought about guns in America
as he recovered from his wounds,
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