Family members of the victims of the Buffalo Massacre and Uvalde mass shooting gave emotional testimony to Congress today.
One of the people who provided testimony was the mother of a young man who was injured in the Buffalo Massacre. In her gripping testimony, she invited congress members to clean her son’s bullet wounds if they didn’t find her words moving enough to pass stricter gun laws.
Ten black people were killed and 3 more people were wounded when an 18-year-old White supremacist entered a grocery store in Buffalo, New York last month and opened fire. The man was wearing a bulletproof vest while armed with an AR-15 and a semi-automatic handgun.
A week later 21 people were killed at an elementary school in Uvalde, including 19 children and two teachers when an 18-year-old man armed with an AR-15 opened fire in classrooms.
The horrific shootings reignited calls for stricter gun control laws.
Congress is expected to present a bill tightening gun ownership laws on Thursday but it has little chance of passing the U.S. Senate.
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