Colin and Andrew Goddard

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Colin Goddard is the Assistant Director of Victims and Youth Advocacy and Federal Legislation for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. He survived being shot four times during the worst school shooting in American history * the Virginia Tech massacre of April 16, 2007. That chilling experience prompted Goddard to become an advocate for sensible gun laws at the nation’s most prominent gun violence prevention advocacy group in June 2010. Colin graduated Virginia Tech in 2008 with a B.A. in International Studies and a minor in French in 2008. After graduation, Colin worked in Virginia state government, interned at the Brady Campaign, then lived and taught English in Lille, France from September 2009 until May 2010.


Andrew Goddard’s career includes 20 years in international humanitarian relief and development, working and living in a number of developing countries. He moved to Virginia in January 2007 when his wife was appointed president of ChildFund International, headquartered in Richmond. His interest in mental health issues, as well as gun safety, came about as a result of the injuries his son sustained in the Virginia Tech massacre. Andrew is the President of the Richmond Chapter of the Million Mom March Against Gun Violence and a board member of both the Virginia Center for Public Safety and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services and Board Chair of the National Gun Victims Action Council. Andrew has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and also worked for 8 years in North Carolina and Georgia as a design engineer and project manager.

Blog Entries by Colin and Andrew Goddard

Now Is the Time. Actually, It's Past Time, Speaker Boehner

207 Comments | Posted April 15, 2012 | 3:25 PM

By Colin Goddard

Trayvon Martin, Gabrielle Giffords, The Virginia Tech 32, The Columbine 13. Reagan, JFK. All shot by people who shouldn't have had access to guns.

After each of these tragedies, leading politicians have said, basically, "Now is not the time to talk about gun policy."

Last year,...

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32 Reasons to Light a Candle Today

0 Comments | Posted January 8, 2012 | 10:50 AM

Today, Jan. 8, 2012, we will join with thousands of Americans to light a candle in remembrance and honor of the six killed and 13 who survived the mass shooting in Tucson, Ariz., exactly one year ago.

We will also stand in solidarity with, and light a candle for, the...

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The Last Pharaoh: Mubarak or LaPierre?

0 Comments | Posted February 18, 2011 | 10:38 AM

On Friday February 11, 2011, the people of Egypt finally achieved a momentous victory over a tyrannical regime that had held absolute power in their country for more than 30 years. That regime perpetuated itself by rigging elections and intimidating or jailing any opposition figures who sought to challenge the...

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A Million Lines of Defense Against Tragedy

0 Comments | Posted January 12, 2011 | 9:02 AM

On January 7, we wrote a blog tied to the third anniversary of the NICS Improvement Law, passed to improve our background check system and ensure more disqualifying mental health records made it into the system. The next day, the mass shooting in Tucson...

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To Private Gun Sellers: Don't Ask, Don't Sell

0 Comments | Posted December 31, 2010 | 12:51 PM

We never knew it could be so easy. We imagine that if most Americans understood how easy it is, they would be outraged and they would want this system to be changed.

We Goddard men had handled and fired guns at ranges, while hunting, and for Colin during Basic Rifleman...

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Goddards on Guns: The Beginning

0 Comments | Posted December 21, 2010 | 1:15 PM

Picture a father and son who are very close, after many years of sharing sports, world travel and other interests. Imagine a father and son, good buddies, who talk freely and often about anything -- everything. It is April 2007 and the son is lying in a hospital bed with...

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