during the meetings we held,we met with a young man, calling doddered. colin goddard is here. where are you? he was one of the survivors of the virginia tech massacre. he calls himself one of the lucky seven. he will tell you that he was shot four times on that day. he has three bullets that are still inside him. when i asked him about what he thought we should be doing, he said, i'm not here because of what happened to me. i'm here because what happened to me keeps happening to other people. it. and we will. i promise you, we will. this is our intent, we must do what we can now. there's no person who is more committed to acting on its moral obligation that we have than the president of the united states of america. ladies and gentlemen, president barack obama. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you so much. it thank you, everybody. please come have a seat. good afternoon, everybody. let me begin by thanking our vice-president, joe biden. and for your dedication, joe, to this issue, and for bringing so many voices to the table. while reducing gun violence is a complicat