We are a grieving nation in desperate need of gun safety reforms.
John Bazemore, STF / Associated Pressspeaking for them about gun violenceRubio, whose 10-year-old daughter Lexi was murdered in Uvalde, spoke about the inevitability of future gun violence in a nation that fails to take meaningful action and embrace commonsense reforms.
“Somewhere out there, there is a mom listening to our testimony thinking, ‘I can’t even imagine their pain,’ not knowing that our reality will someday be hers. Unless we act now,” Rubio told the House Oversight Committee in virtual testimony two weeks after the Uvalde massacre in which 19 children and two teachers were killed.
Mothers in Sandy Hook, Parkland, Santa Fe and so many other shootings across the nation have given voice to such unfathomable pain and spoken with urgency for action.Dec. 14, “My heart broke for the victims family and friends while I held my 6 month old in my arms. Not knowing almost 10 years later I would be in their shoes.
It strengthened background checks on buyers under 21 years old; restricted access to firearms for dating partners convicted of domestic abuse; created stiffer penalties for gun trafficking and “straw” purchasing, in which someone buys a firearm for someone prohibited from owning one; provided funding for mental health programs and school security and for states to enact red flag laws or other intervention methods meant to stop shootings before they happen.
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