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Gun violence hearing: Chilling moments of testimony about mass shootings

Miah Cerrillo, survivor and Fourth- Grade Student at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, testifies to The House Oversight and Reform Committee on Wednesday, June 8, 2022, in Washington, D.C..

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers on Wednesday heard heart-wrenching and gripping testimony from parents, a child and a pediatrician who were all personally touched by recent mass shootings — an effort by Democrats to highlight in dramatic terms the physical and emotional toll of gun violence.

The testimony before the House Oversight Committee came two weeks after 19 children and two teachers were shot and killed in a classroom in Uvalde, Texas. That massacre followed several other mass shootings, including one on May 14 in Buffalo, N.Y., that left 10 Black grocery shoppers dead and another at a Laguna Woods church that

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