A survivor of July’s mass shooting in a Colorado movie theater is appearing in a TV ad intended to get the presidential candidates to discuss gun violence at tomorrow’s debate.
The ad, sponsored by the Mayors Against Illegal Guns coalition established by Mayor Bloomberg, features Stephen Barton (pictured), 22, who was shot in the neck and face in the July 20 attack in Aurora that left 12 dead and 58 wounded.
“When you watch the presidential debates ask yourself: Who has a plan to stop gun violence?” he says in the 30-second spot playing in Denver, DC, and on cable nationwide. “Let’s demand a plan.”
Barton was on a cross-country bicycle trip when he stopped in Aurora to catch “The Dark Knight Rises.”
Mayoral aides said the ad buy was in the “six-figure” range.
Bloomberg again denounced President Obama and Mitt Romney over gun control.
“I think it’s incumbent on the candidates who want our votes to say what they would do about it and not just say, ‘Isn’t that terrible? I feel your pain,’ ” the mayor said.