Uvalde parents tearfully testify to Congress, urge gun reform | USA TODAY
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as posted by the channelParents Felix and Kimberly Rubio lost their daughter in the Uvalde shooting. They joined many others urging Congress to pass new gun control measures.
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Felix and Kimberly Rubio, parents of Lexi Rubio, who died in the Uvalde massacre, spoke to lawmakers about their increasingly desperate search for their daughter – until they discovered she was among the deceased. “Bus after bus arrived but she wasn’t onboard,” Kimberly testified.
Her and other family members drove to different hospitals looking for her. “At this point, some part of me must have realized that she was gone,” said Kimberly. Her worst fear was later confirmed later. Tearing up, she pleaded for lawmakers to not “want to think of Lexi as just a number. She was intelligent, compassionate and athletic. She was quiet and shy unless she had a point to make.”
Closing her testimony, Kimberly said, “Somewhere out there there's a mom listening to our testimony, thinking I can't even imagine their pain. Not knowing our reality will one day be hers, unless we act now.”
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