Young survivor of Texas school massacre tells US Congress of day's horror

WASHINGTON: A fourth-grade survivor of last month's mass shooting at a Texas elementary school told US lawmakers that after the gunman murdered her teacher and friends, she smeared blood on herself in a desperate bid for survival.

"And then he shot some of my classmates and the white board," she said, adding:"He shot my friend that was next to me ... and I thought he was going to come back to the room. I got the blood and put it all on me."Cerrillo spoke about two weeks after the shooting by an 18-year-old at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, that killed 19 of her classmates and two teachers.

Many of them have objected to proposals such as limited sales of the assault-style rifles used in the Uvalde massacre and another mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York, grocery story that killed 10 black victims.Another witness, Lucretia Hughes of the DC Project Women for Gun Rights, criticized the idea of more gun control laws.

Public opinion polls show a majority of Americans favor steps to expand background checks of prospective gun buyers and other moves to rein in spiking gun violence.The sobbing parents of one of the dead Uvalde students urged Congress to take tough steps to control gun sales. Zeneta Everhart, mother of Zaire Goodman, who was injured in the shooting at a Buffalo supermarket, added,"Lawmakers who continuously allow these mass shootings to continue by not passing stricter gun laws should be voted out."

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