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US Needs Sensible Gun Laws: Shooting Victim's Father Promotes Campaign
10 January 2008
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Georgia), Opinion
At 9:40 a.m. on Monday, April 16, 2007, my wife's cousin, Lee Ellis, telephoned. Check the news, he advised. Something was happening at Virginia Tech, where our adult son, Jamie, taught. There were two dormitory murders and bloodshed in an engineering building.
"Jamie has his own house," I said. "He teaches German, not engineering." I could not imagine that at an institution as big as Virginia Tech, our son could fall victim to such peril. I dismissed Lee's warning as... (GunPolicy.org)