Campus Shooting Victims Ask Congress to Toughen Gun Laws
posted 11:02 am Tue October 16, 2007 - WASHINGTON
The shooting rampage happened six months ago.
The survivors and relatives support the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence in its letter that urges Congress to pass legislation for states to share with the federal government more complete mental-health information about gun buyers.
Tuesday, six months after the shooting rampage, a survivor of the shooting rampage and about 12 family members of victims plan to appear at a news conference in the Capitol and make their plea.
The House already passed the legislation, but a similar version is stalled in the Senate.
Holly Adams Sherman, mother of Leslie Sherman, a student from Springfield who was killed, said the bill "might have been one deterrent of many possible deterrents" to gunman Seung-Hui Cho.
The National Rifle Association supports the legislation.
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Information from: Richmond Times-Dispatch
Latest Comment on Campus Shooting Victims Ask Congress to Toughen Gun Laws
Tuckmeister
9:10 am on 10/17/07
I'm NOT against the NRA and I'm not anti-gun (I own one), they just have some stupid people in power who don't think straight every so often, it's just taken them SO LONG to actually support this type of legislation...I did read the whole story. The NRA got such a backlash after Columbine (you know, holding a rally to support guns while in Columbine, CO a few weeks after the shootings.....and others around the US strangely at the same time there were other shootings), they just don't want to put their foot in their mouths again. If they HAD their way, they wouldn't support it. Sorry I didn't clarify earlier. And I totally agree with Winstrv, fif a psycho wants to kill, they're going to do it regardless of what the law (or the Bible) says. Period.
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