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colin goddard is a survivor of a gun attack.e edit feats in washington he said the tide is turning at the state and local level. >> we've seen a lot of activity in the past few years, promoting good gun policy and defeating efforts to repeal the basic gun rights we have in place. >> reporter: but even advocates like goddard admit, new gun laws in congress aren't going to pass any time soon. mike viqueria, al jazeera, washington. >> richard aborn is president of the citizens crime commission of new york city, an organization focused on criminal justice and public safety. he was a key strategist, of the brady bill. richard always great to have you in the studio. >> happy to be here. >> has congress made a priority out of protecting gun rights in america? >> congress has made a priority out of not passing any gun control laws. let me take your question and show what the problem is. your question assumes there's an inconsistency between protecting gun rights and passing gun control laws and there's not. that's the sad thing about th

with me to talk about all of this, david cullen the author of the book "columbine" and colin godda goddardf virginia tech. colin, you still have three bullets in your body. when you hear this virginia killer admire the man who shot you, what goes through your mind? >> it's incredibly disturbing and, frankly, none of us should be thinking about admiring these people or giving really them any notoriety they don't deserve. so my mind on that is pretty short. what i then focus on is how do we stop the next series of shootings that's going to happen in this country because we've done nothing since the last one. that's where i spend most of my focus. >> i want to talk about that, but i want to pause for a moment because this killer in virginia also expressed admiration for the columbine killings, and dave, that's your area of expertise. columbine continues to inspire mass murderers. why is that? >> well, it's sort of the template. it kind of kicked off this whole series of these copycats. it wasn't the first one, but it was the one that brought it to a new level and really kind of showed these p