On a snowy, windy April day in Blacksburg, Virginia in 2007, young Americans pursued a college education and their teachers were engaged providing it to them. Some of those students were attending Introductory German, Intermediate French, Advanced Hydrology Engineering, and Solid Mechanics classes in a building called Norris Hall. 32 of them died, 17 more were wounded, and 6 more were injured jumping out of windows. Their lives had collided with that of a tortured loner, whom a judge had previously written was “fundamentally ill and in need of hospitalization, and presents an eminent danger to self or others as a result of mental illness, or is so seriously mentally ill as to be substantially unable to care for self." One of those wounded was a 21-year-old senior International Studies major from Richmond, Virginia named Colin Goddard. Goddard played a unique role in the horrific drama that played out at Virginia Tech University on that blustery April day: he was the only person within the building who called the police. Urged by his French professor to dial 911 as the crackle of gunfire came closer to the door of their classroom, Goddard made the call. Shot for the first time, he passed the phone to a classmate who gave the police enough information to get them to the scene three minutes later. Six minutes after, the police got into the building, which had been barricaded. For all the terrible damage that the killer did, the toll of lost lives might have been much higher if it was not for the 911 call by Colin Goddard and Emily Haas. By the end of the ordeal, the killer had fired at Goddard at three times during the eleven-minute assault and he was shot and wounded four times. He heard the rescue workers walking through his classroom, shouting ”red tag, black tag, black tag‚” a dire roster of the critical wounded and the dead. Goddard was later told that he might not walk again, but he fought his way through arduous physical therapy. All along he grew a fire in his heart to take action on the cause of keeping dangerous people from having easy access to deadly weapons. The killer was equipped with two semiautomatic handguns, a dozens of 10- and 15-round magazines, and 400 rounds of hollow-point ammunition. After recovering and finishing his degree, Colin Goddard decided to volunteer for 'the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence', the nation’s largest gun control organization. He worked to convince them to sponsor a project, where he went undercover with a hidden camera and walked into gun shows all across America. He was to prove how easy it is for anyone to buy a gun, with no identification, no Brady background check, just equipped with a wad of cash. 'Living for 32' is his story.