of a dead classmate and playing d dead. he shot my classmates, i thought he would come back to the front and so i got a little blood and i put it all over me. let s go straight up to cnn s lauren fox at the capitol. lauren is listening to that young girl, listening to the parents. it is heart wrenching. the question is, what will congress make hearing? reporter: yeah, john, i heard from the lawmakers, one thing you heard they had never, never seen this close to the tragedy the kind of testimony that we heard today. that coming, of course, from a 4th grader who was in one of the class roorms where her classmates were killed, where her teacher was shot. that is the kind of emotional t including the chair woman hoped would change the mind of her colleagues. we also heard riveting and heart breaking testimony from the parents of lexi rubio. this is what her mother kimberly said about her last moments with her daughter. i called her and told her we loved her and would pick
this emotional testimony from those most acted in uvalde and in buffalo. i couldn t because i lost my baby girl. she s not the same little girl that i used to play with and hang around with and do everything because she was daddy s little girl. to the lawmakers who feel we do not need stricter gun laws, let me paint a picture for you, my son xavier has a hole in the right side of his neck, two on his back and another on his left leg, carved by afternoon exploding bullet from an ar-15. what i did find was something so no prayer would ever relieve. two children whose bodies had been pulverized by bullet itself, decapitated, whose flesh ripped apart, that the only clue of their identities was a blood splattered cartoon clothes still
propel out of the gun. that s the stuff that goes bang and lets off the flash, but it is the bullet that is the actual projectile that s fired out of the end of the barrel. now, if a gun is loaded with a blank, that just means it has all of the other component pieces that a real piece of ammunition has minus the bullet itself, minus the projectile designed to actually kill you. just because they re blanks though doesn t mean they re not dangerous. i mean go back to that diagram showing the blank for a second. can we pit it back up? you see where it says wad sealed with plastic or paper, released like a projectile. there isn t a chunk of metal on the end, a bullet, but you need to stick something in there to seal in the gun powder. they use wadding or paper, it poses less danger than a bullet but if fired at close enough range a blank can injure or kill someone. it is technically missing the bullet but even a blank can be