... she's "not daddy's little girl anymore."

[demmiblue]

Uvalde parents recount shooting horror and plead for gun control

Miah Cerrillo used to spend her days playing with her family’s dogs and making TikTok videos, relishing the simple joys of being an 11-year-old.

After surviving the school shooting in Uvalde, Tex., last month, that little girl now startles at a dog bark, running to hide when one of the family pets gets too loud.

“This is not our Miah. This is not our TikTok dancer. This is not our playful Miah, you know? This is not our Miah,” her father, Miguel Cerrillo, said in an interview moments after he briefly testified at the House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on gun violence Wednesday. “She’s outgoing, but it’s not … it’s not our daughter. It’s not daddy’s little girl anymore. It’s a whole different story. She’s way different now.”

Miah was set to testify in person before House members, who will vote late Wednesday on a package of gun measures in response to the recent mass shooting in Buffalo and Uvalde. But the realization of bright lights and camera clicks — things that now serve as psychological triggers for her — led Miah to break down. Instead, her father spoke briefly to the House panel after video of Miah describing the shooting played in the hearing room.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/08/miah-cerillo-uvalde-hearing/

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Good lord.

[demmiblue]

1. Video:

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There are no words...

[Deuxcents]

2. There are no words..

Only pain for those who experience such horrors. I cannot understand the stalling from the opposition to get anything done.

[FoxNewsSucks]

3. They don't give a rat's ass about anything but themselves and money.

There's no other explanation.

[Deuxcents]

5. Yes, but I will never understand them.

Nothing..not little kids, the elderly, anyone killed by this violence will melt their hearts. How can it be money when they’re all doing well? Is the fear of losing an election that important?

[Warpy]

9. Yes, it's just THAT

Republicans are all twisted up with tribalism, religion, dehumanizing everybody else, and climbing over the dead bodies of little kids to keep Democrats out of office.

That's who they are right now. They won't compromise, they won't bend, they won;t face any uncomfortable facts.

They have to be defeated.

[Emile]

4. All Republicans care about is second amendment rights for mass murderers!

[calimary]

7. Your guns matter more than my child's life.

How’s that, America?

Proud of that, America?

Is that REALLY how it’s supposed to be? Little kids mowed down in their classroom and we can’t do anything to stop it because anything that cramps a gunner’s style is not to be touched.

It’s the gun that’s sacrosanct. Not you or your right to life or your kid’s right to life.

[Tetrachloride]

6. Follow the money. Banks, advertisers, bag men and the PR people

[Evolve Dammit]

8. How can anyone live through that and not be profoundly affected? I feel so bad for them. So bad.

[llashram]

10. consequence

laid at the feet of the RW by an 11-year-old survivor of a horrendous experience...sad indeed

[Hulk]

11. Vote EVERY and ANY repukke out of office....

If you are tired of this neesless slaughter...vote against EVERY repukkke right down the ballot.