By Rayna Reid ·Updated June 9, 2022
For the past two days, lawmakers on Capitol Hill have been hearing about the toll of gun violence on our country from those impacted firsthand by the recent mass shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo. Yesterday, Miah Cerrillo, an 11-year-old fourth-grader at Robb Elementary School, testified via a prerecorded video. Cerrillo impassionedly recounted “how she covered herself with a dead classmate’s blood to avoid being