Roland Gutierrez of San Antonio made the remarks during a U.S. House subcommittee hearing focused on bipartisan legislative solutions to gun violence. SanAntonio SATX SanAntonioTX Uvalde UvaldeMassacre GunControl GunReformNow
, D-San Antonio, is not on the subcommittee but joined the audience to listen in. Castro, Jackson Lee and Gutierrez had a hearing in Uvalde in September to hear from families.
“I’m angry. Legislators are not supposed to be enraged. We are simply supposed to stand with stoic faces and let witnesses put their souls on the table,” Jackson Lee said. “None of you should have to tell your stories.”, R-Texas, in the aftermath of the Uvalde shooting — the first major gun safety law in decades.
Roy Guerrero, a Uvalde physician who knew and treated many of the children killed in the shooting, rebuffed any idea that an act of heroism or intervention could have stopped their deaths when an AR-15-style gun was involved. But Republicans rejected Democrats’ pleas as trying to take away guns from law-abiding citizens, with Republican ranking member Andy Biggs saying Democratic gun proposals would “emasculate” gun owners’ rights.
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