Her powerful speech comes as President Joe Biden is pushing to ban assault rifles.
President Joe BidenSurvivor Jackie Hegarty and the president spoke at a memorial Wednesday night. Another gathering is planned for 11 a.m. Thursday in Washington D.C."That day, I survived because the shooter, armed with an AR15, chose left instead of right," she said.
It's a moment she has spent the last 10 years thinking about. The twist of fate, she says, led her to living, while others died. She was just seven years old. "It was impossible to imagine that 26 innocent lives were killed in the same building I was in," she said. Back in 2012, officials said a gunman shot and killed those innocent lives -- kids and the faculty trying to protect them at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. "Guns are now the number one killer of children in America, and we are asked to be brave while hiding under our desks in our classrooms, while too many elected officials lack the courage to pass common sense laws to save our lives," said Hegarty.
Earlier this year, Congress passed its first piece of major gun legislation since the 1990s following mass shootings in
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