Chapter 5-Virginia Tech-April 16, 2007
Manage episode 451524224 series 3609169
Gerry Peters was the son of THE broadcasting Power Couple in Washington, DC. He had brains, looks, and was progressing toward a summa cum laude degree in Journalism. At Virginia Tech. In 2007. Where Gerry found himself in the wrong classroom at the wrong moment.
"Somehow this has become routine! The reporting is routine, my response, here at this podium ends up being routine, the conversation in the aftermath of it, we've become numb to this. We talked about this after Columbine and Blacksburg, after Tucson, after Newtown, after Aurora, after Charlestown. It cannot be this easy for somebody who wants to inflict harm on other people to get his or her hands on a gun." President Obama, 10/01/2015, after Umpqua Community College shooting
8 epizódok