There was heartbreaking testimony before lawmakers in Austin, where parents who lost children in the Uvalde school shooting pushed to raise the legal age to buy an assault rifle from 18 to 21.
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"A shooter walked into Robb Elementary School and within about three minutes he shot 38 people.19 students and two teachers died....I call this 21 for 21, for the 21 souls we lost in Uvalde let's raise the age to 21 for the purchase of this weapon that took those innocent lives...God bless those families. They could be asking for so much more, but this is all they are asking you for," said State Representative Tracy King, a Republican from Uvalde and sponsor of HB-2724.
"I don't want you to see what I saw. My daughter draped in a white sheet, cold and alone in an operating room," said Javier Cazares, father 10-year-old Uvalde victim Jacklyn Cazares. "I saw the wound that took her life. I don't want any of you to see that."
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