Church Shooting Victim Reflects on Rampage

PlusChurch Shooting Victim Reflects on RampageChurch Shooting Victim Reflects on RampageThe Associated PressShooting victim and retired philosophy professor Joe Barnhart says the church rampage in Knoxville that claimed the life of an old friend and wounded three members of his family has changed his views on capital punishment. (July 30)[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE] [Notes:Dateline: Knoxville, Tenn.][Notes:Various Vid of Barnhart in hospital; file vid scene] Joe Barnhart was hit by more than 20 shotgun pellets when a gunman attacked the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church. [Notes:SOT Joe Barnhart: "This man came in and there was this horrendous explosion and you knew it wasn't firecrackers but you didn't know what it was."][Notes:File vid scene; Barnhart in hospital]Sunday's shooting rampage left two people dead ... Another six wounded.Among the injured ... Three of Barnhart's family members.His long-time friend ... 61-year old Linda Kraeger ... was killed in the attack. [Notes:SOT Joe Barnhart: "And I thought I've been hit in the back. And I lay there and I thought well Linda is, looks dead and I'm dying and uh.. And then I thought well I can't breathe and this is the way it is to die. Linda's dead and she was going to help us raise the grandchildren. All this went through your head in a hurry."]Also killed was Greg McKendry. The 60-year-old usher died blocking a shotgun blast. Barnhart says this experience has changed his view on capital punishment.This 76-year-old retired college professor now thinks that's not enough. Barnhart says if suspect Jim D. Adkisson is convicted ... he should 'never see the light of day' again. [Notes:SOT Joe Barnhart: "It was not personal. It was wholey impersonal. He cared nothing for any of these people he just, and had he come into the other door he probably would have taken another row of people rather than our family."] [Notes:File vid suspect]58-year-old Adkisson remains behind bars on one-million-dollars bond.Th...