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Shooting survivor works toward stricter gun controls

April 12, 2011

Colin Goddard survived the 2007 Viriginia Tech shooting. He still has three bullets in his body. The 25-year-old is now committed to tightening gun laws in the US and uses his advocacy to find meaning in the tragedy.

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Virginia Tech student Jeff Graham visits a makeshift memorial to the 32 slain students and others on the campus of the school in Blacksburg, Va., Tuesday, April 17, 2007
32 people lost their lives in the Virginia Tech shootingImage: AP