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Petula Dvorak: Virginia Tech victim asks: ?How many are enough??

?Yeah, yeah, yeah,? he would hear, one navy blue suit nodding to another. They would listen to what Colin Goddard had to say, shake his hand, then open the door for the next Washington lobbyist or constituent.

….But as Goddard was giving his earnest, wonky spiel about banning the kind of magazines that Jared Loughner allegedly used to spray gunfire in Tucson or requiring background checks on people who buy weapons at gun shows, those listening didn?t know there were three bullets painfully worming their way through his body.

(This column first appeared in the Washington Post.)