her quick thinking should be commended. but the fact that she had to even do it should be condemned. nearly three weeks since a child was forced to confront pure evil, we re getting a glimpse of the horror she witnessed from inside that courtroom inside that classroom. shot my teacher and told my teacher, shot her in the head. and then he shot some of my classmates and the white board. when i went to the backpacks, he shot my friend that was next to me. and i thought he was going to come back to the room so, i grabbed the blood and i put it all over me. if that had been fiction, parents would not let a child her age read it. had it been a movie, it would be almost a decade before the rating system would allow someone her age to watch it. but it s not fiction. and it wasn t a movie. and i bet it will replay in her mind for the rest of her beautiful life. and it s no fault of her own or any of those children or teachers whose lives were stolen or the children of robb elem
some people will tell you, kids, they say the darnedest things. others will simply say, out of mouths of the babes, if you re my grandmother. but say we heard the truth from the mouth of a child who should be asking to ride her bicycle with that voice, not having to testify before the house representatives about how she was forced to try and save her own life and did. her quick thinking should be commended. but the fact that she had to even do it should be condemned. nearly three weeks since a child was forced to confront pure evil, we re getting a glimpse of the horror she witnessed from inside that courtroom inside that classroom. shot my teacher and told my teacher, shot her in the head. and then he shot some of my classmates and the white board. when i went to the backpacks, he shot my friend that was next to me. and i thought he was going to come back to the room so, i grabbed the blood and i put it all over me. if that had been fiction, parents would not let a chi
of physical damage, damage that a uvalde pediatrician had to testify to today. brace yourself. children whose bodies have been pulverized by bullets fired at them, decapitated, whose flesh had been ripped apart, that the only clue to their identities was blood spattered cartoon clothes clinging to them, clinging for life and finding none. the words pulverized, decapitated. just think of the moment that you bought your child s clothing or that harried rush in the morning when you re trying to find their favorite shirt. maybe you re trying to pull it out of the laundry basket. you know they want to wear it again. imagine that s the shirt, the one you re going to use to identify your baby, blood spattered cartoon clothing.
cartoon clothes clinging to them, clinging for life and finding none. the words pulverized, decapitated. just think of the moment that you bought your child s clothing or that harried rush in the morning when you re trying to find their favorite shirt. maybe you re trying to pull it out of the laundry basket. you know they want to wear it again. imagine that s the shirt, the one you re going to use to identify your baby, blood spattered cartoon clothing. rarely do we hear this level of detail. but it s not isolated to the shootings that end up on the news. do you realize that more kids are killed by guns every year in this country than those that die in car crashes or by drugs? in addition to the 21 families in uvalde that now have an empty bed at home, a bedroom likely