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Tuesday, January 08, 2013

‘A Cruel, Brutal, and Truly Inhuman Blow to My Heart’

The Westport father of an 18-year-old who died in a fall at a Canadian university dormitory after he had been drinking urged the Representative Town Meeting tonight not to “exploit” the slain Newtown children by approving an anti-gun sense of the meeting resolution.

Iain Bruce addresses the Westport Representative Town Meeting tonight. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

Iain Bruce, 53, whose son Cameron died in a September 2010 fall at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, (See WestportNow Sept. 13, 2010) said politicians, activists, and others exploited his son’s death to pursue long held goals.

He said such statements were a “cruel, brutal, and truly inhuman blow to my heart, my head and my guts.”

Following is the text of Bruce’s remarks:

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