The panel will include testimony from the mother of a 20-year-old man who was shot in a racist mass shooting last month in a supermarket in Buffalo, as well as the parents of a 10-year-old girl shot and killed in her elementary school in Uvalde.
will appear before a House committee next week in an effort to bring home the devastation of America's gun violence epidemic.
“It is my hope that all my colleagues will listen with an open heart as gun violence survivors and loved ones recount one of the darkest days of their lives,” Maloney said in a statement. “This hearing is ultimately about saving lives, and I hope it will galvanize my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to pass legislation to do just that.”
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