Jim Tobin, executive director of Piedmont Community Services, said he totally endorses comments made to USA Today by forensic psychologist Dewey Cornell, director of the Virginia Youth Violence Project at the University of Virginia. Cornell is one of the authors of a position statement titled “A Call for More Effective Prevention of Violence” in response to the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. The statement was endorsed by more than 100 organizations and more than 200 prevention scholars and practitioners.