mia cerillo covered herself in her friend s blood, pretended to be dead so that she could survive. the hearing comes as pressure mounts on u.s. lawmakers to address a recent string of mass shootings. this afternoon the house will vote on a set of bills that would raise the minimum age to buy a semiautomatic weapon from 18 to 21, ban high capacity magazines and crack down on ghost gun purchases or guns that are not traceable. the bill is unlikely to garner republican support, but a different story is unfolding in the senate where the top democratic negotiator of a bipartisan package of gun bills says a deal could be reached by the end of this week. some issues on the table include addressing mental health, expanding background checks, providing incentives for states to implement red flag laws and strengthening school security. the calls for lawmakers to act got a boost on tuesday afternoon when actor matthew mcconaughey a uvalde native made an emotional plea from the white hou
been chosen and are trusted to protect us, but let me say to you here today i do not feel protected. no citizen needs an ar-15. these weapons are designed to do the most harm in the least amount of time and on saturday may 14th it took a domestic terrorist just two minutes to shoot and kill ten people and injure three others. if after hearing from me and the other people testifying here today does not move you to act on gun laws i invite you to my home to help me clean zaire s wounds so that you may see up close the damage that has been caused to my son and to my community. to the families of ruth whitfield, pearl young, catherine hassy, hayward patterson, geraldine talley, aaron setter, marcus morrison and robert at that drury i promise that their deaths will not be in vain.