straight to the hospital. >> over the first couple days, when did you feel like, okay, my dad's out of the woods? >> actually i felt pretty good in the intensive care unit when he came out of surgery. we knew by that time, obviously this was very serious, but he looked pretty od. i me, for a guwho had just been shot and nearly killed, his color was back, you know, he looked okay under the circumstances. so i stopped worrying a bit there. the doctors didn't seem so worried, either. they looked like they had a handle on things. >> well, at the time, of course, it became a debate about the issue, particularly of mentally ill folks getting their hands on guns, and this issue of gun rights. i'm also joined, ron, by colin goodard, he was one of the victims of the virginia tech shooting. colin, thanks for being here. i want to throw up some poll numbers about the issue of gun control versus gun rights and