Paul Helmke of the Brady Campaign reports some people thought the testimony of a survivor of the Virginia Tech shooting was "the most compelling he had ever heard". The victim detailed the 10 minutes of horror as he and many others were shot multiple times.
I found this rather odd for two reasons:
- The testimony was advocating the background checks for private sales of firearms. Which the VT survivor admitted would not have made a difference in his case because the perpetrator purchased his firearms from a licensed FFL and passed the background check. Hence all the physical and emotional trauma of his ordeal was totally irrelevant to the proposed law being discussed.
- Apparently these people hadn't heard Suzanne Hupp's testimony. Because what she proposed, the right to keep and bear arms in defense of innocent life, would have saved her parents life and is far more compelling.
Sebastian has a different response to this testimony.