This weekend on YOUR HEALTH®, we’ll be joined by gun violence prevention advocate and survivor of the 2007 Virginia Tech campus shooting massacre, Colin Goddard, about his new documentary, Living for 32.
On a snowy, windy April day in Blacksburg, Virginia in 2007, young Americans pursued a college education and their teachers engaged in providing it to them. Thirty-two of them died, 17 more were wounded, and six more were injured jumping out of windows. One of those wounded was a 21-year-old senior International Studies major from Richmond, Virginia, named Colin Goddard. Goddard played a unique role in the horrific drama that played out at Virginia Tech University on that blustery April day: he was the only person within the building to call the police. By the end of the ordeal, the killer had fired at him at three separate moments during the eleven-minute assault. Goddard had been shot four times. He was later told he might not walk again, but fought his way through arduous physical therapy. And he grew a fire in his heart to do something about keeping dangerous people from having easy access to deadly weapons. “Living for 32” is his story. http://www.livingfor32.com
Please tune in! We’re on the air:
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Show Topics:
- Research that Matters (min 0-10): prostate cancer & radiation therapy, acupuncture & premenstrual syndrome, broccoli & living longer, ovarian cancer screening
- Conversations with Colin Goddard about his documentary, Living for 32 (min 10-32).
- House Calls (min 32-44): dog bites, ALCAT testing, endometriosis treatment, Viagra
Resources:
- Research that Matters
- Comparative Evaluation of Radiation Treatments for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer: An Updated Systematic Review.
- Considering Prostate Cancer Treatment Options from the American Cancer Society
- Expectant Management (Watchful Waiting) and Active Surveillance
- Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer – interactive audio version from X-Plain
- Acupuncture for premenstrual syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.
- Acupuncture: An Introduction from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Premenstrual Syndrome from Mayo Clinic
- Cruciferous vegetable consumption is associated with a reduced risk of total and cardiovascular disease mortality.
- Fruit and Vegetables from the American Heart Association
- Effect of screening on ovarian cancer mortality: the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Randomized Controlled Trial.
- Ovarian Cancer Screening from the National Cancer Institute
- Conversations with Colin Goddard
- House Calls
- Animal Bites – Prevention & Treatment – Medline Plus
- Allergy Testing – dubious products and proper testing from Quack Watch
- Endometriosis: in search of optimal treatment.
- Laparoscopic management of endometriosis: comprehensive review of best evidence.
- Alternative Treatments for Erectile Dysfunction – from a review in Medline: Natural aphrodisiacs.
Colin Goddard is a victim both of the shooter (who shall remain nameless) and also of the State. Colin was shot in a Designated Defenseless Victim Zone. He was shot on the campus of a State University, which was rendered “Gun Free” by law. No one on that campus was allowed to have a gun unless they were police officers. Not Faculty, not Staff, and not students, many of whom are 21 or over and legally entitled to get a Virginia Concealed Handgun Permit. As a result, the shooter was able to wander the campus seeking victims to murder without any possiblity of anyone effectively resisting.
Now, instead of trying to prevent the State from making more people into defenseless victims, Colin has decided to join forces with the gun grabbers and make it more difficult for law abiding citizens to purchase and carry firearms. I can forgive him for being young and helpless to defend himself. What I can’t forgive is his desire to force more people to be just as helpless.
The shooter did not buy his guns from a private seller. He didn’t even buy them at a gun show. The shooter bought two guns at two different gun stores at least a month apart, complying with Virginia’s stupid “One Gun a Month” law. The shooter passed both background checks, and when questioned, the Virginia State Police said that the shooter WAS NOT a prohibited person. He had been ruled a danger to himself and others by a judge, but the judge did not commit him to a mental institution. Absent that committment, the shooter was not a prohibited person. This is the law. If you want to complain about that, complain to the judge that let a dangerous person walk the street instead of sending him to a mental institution where he belonged.
Now, will you be airing the opposing side of the story? Will you be spending some time talking to pro-rights experts about how lawful gun ownership and legal concealed carry saves lives?
By: Sean Sorrentino on June 29, 2011
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