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Uvalde survivor and victim's parents deliver emotional testimony at House hearing on gun violence

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. · Wednesday, June 8th 2022 at 4:40PM · 763 views
Uvalde survivor and victim's parents deliver emotional testimony at House hearing on gun violence

Washington — A young student who survived the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, was among of group of witnesses who testified before House lawmakers at a hearing on gun violence, recalling how she smeared the blood of a classmate on herself to appear as if she were dead.

Miah Cerrillo, a fourth grader at Robb Elementary School, appeared in a prerecorded video before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Wednesday morning. The hearing came hours before the House was set to begin debate on a package of gun restrictions aimed at preventing future mass shootings.

Detailing one of the most horrific accounts of the massacre, Cerrillo said her class was watching a movie when her teacher got an email and went to lock the classroom door, making eye contact with the gunman in the hallway. She said the teacher told them to hide behind the teacher's desk and their backpacks. The gunman went into an adjoining classroom before coming into hers, where he told her teacher "good night" and shot her in the head, Cerillo said. He then shot Cerrillo's classmates and a whiteboard.

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Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Wednesday, June 8th 2022 at 5:12PM

This is a story you got to see in it's entirety. From the news of this day, I can still hear some republican law makers still, at this point wants to put the blame elsewhere, instead of dealing with the loopholes in our nations gun laws. These are the people who need to be weeded out of office and if the people, vote them back in, then you can see where the problem, truly is. this killing was just one, within tens day from one another that involed young 18 year old boys armed with the weapon of choice and that was the AR-15.

Steve Williams Thursday, June 9th 2022 at 7:08PM

You can't infringe on the people's right to bear arms.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Thursday, June 9th 2022 at 7:30PM

I’m not infringing on responsible adults rights to bear arms. Steve, The right to bear arms comes with responsibilities that this 18-year-old boy did not have by his actions of killing 19 babies and 2 Adult. Steve, Owning a weapon comes with responsibilities, is that correct?

What should be done to a person who can not handle their Responsibilities?

Steve Williams Friday, June 10th 2022 at 10:25PM

Ron, you can't penalize the millions of responsible 18 year-olds just to stop one hypothetical misfit.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Saturday, June 11th 2022 at 12:29AM

Why should you want a 18 hypothetical misfit as you call him to have a weapon of war anyway?

Have you forgot just 10 days earlier a 18-Year-Old White Supremacist Terrorist Murdered 10 In Buffalo Mass Shooting, Twitter Points Out The Racism, Steve?

Can you say, there is no more 18--year-olds like this out that?

Steve Williams Saturday, June 11th 2022 at 1:52AM

Yes there are 18 year-olds out there like that Ron, so do something effective and stop trying to grab our guns. Besides, you just generate more gun sales when you sensationalize them.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Saturday, June 11th 2022 at 7:46AM

Steve, raising the gun laws to 21 is not a gun grab, it is a Prevention of more death from those Who have not taken the responsibility seriousness enough to own such a weapon.

I asked you a question earlier and you have not replied, why?

Have you forgot just 10 days earlier a 18-Year-Old White Supremacist Terrorist Murdered 10 In Buffalo Mass Shooting, Twitter Points Out The Racism, Steve?

Steve Williams Saturday, June 11th 2022 at 2:31PM

Ron, America was won with guns. You have to accept the collateral damage. I have.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Saturday, June 11th 2022 at 3:09PM

BULL💩 Steve, that is not living in the home of the brave and home of the free. You are willing to live life like someone in a third world country. No, this is the greatest nation on earth and the gun law will change from 18 to 21 in this country and you will have to live with that, GOT IT!!!

Steve Williams Saturday, June 11th 2022 at 6:25PM

Only the States can raise the age Ron. The Federal government has no Constitutional authority to do it. Just like abortion.

Steve Williams Saturday, June 11th 2022 at 6:29PM

P.S. Ron, would you like to guess what was the penalty for the man that murdered my son? With a gun? His third gun felony? Five years after the deed? Take a guess.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Saturday, June 11th 2022 at 8:12PM

I asked you a question earlier and you have not replied, why?

Have you forgot just 10 days earlier an 18-Year-Old White Supremacist Terrorist Murdered 10 In Buffalo Mass Shooting, Twitter Points Out The Racism,

By the way Steve on Aug 13, 2019 · note – a federal appeals court has ruled on July 13, 2021, that the existing minimum age requirement (21 years old) for purchases of handguns from federally licensed gun dealers and they can do the same for military-style weapons as well.

Steve Williams Saturday, June 11th 2022 at 11:41PM

What does "just 10 days earlier an 18-Year-Old White Supremacist Terrorist Murdered 10 In Buffalo Mass Shooting" have to do with me Ron? I have my own loss and injustice to concern me. As long as there are DAs like those in Oakland, California you are stuck with your 18 year old murderers.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Sunday, June 12th 2022 at 12:51AM

Take you head out of your backside Steve and stop lying.

Steve Williams Sunday, June 12th 2022 at 2:11AM

Then you will suffer the consequence of your ignorance Ron. That's just what I told the judge when he failed to execute justice.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Sunday, June 12th 2022 at 6:53AM

How did that make you feel, Steve?

Steve Williams Sunday, June 12th 2022 at 4:21PM

It makes me angry Ron. My son's murderer and the Oakland DA came to a plea deal for 18 years. The perpetrator, Artison Manalastas, had previously committed armed robbery, then later went to Federal prison for illegal possession of a fiream by a felon. I told the judge that 18 years was NOTHING, that the man who had shot my second wife's hands off, in Hayward, CA, got 18 years for aggravated mahem, had already done that time and was back on the streets. I told the judge that it will be on his head when this murderer is released in 13 years, when I may no longer be here but my surviving sons will, this murderer will not have been reformed in prison, but will commit further crimes, maybe further murder, since he has already committed one and gotten away with it, why not more?

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Sunday, June 12th 2022 at 8:43PM

Wow!!! You be careful.

Steve Williams Monday, June 13th 2022 at 10:51PM

I will.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Monday, June 13th 2022 at 11:06PM

I enjoy talking to you.

Steve Williams Tuesday, June 14th 2022 at 9:54PM

Me too Ron.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Tuesday, June 14th 2022 at 10:12PM

Quick question Steve, did your son know murderer?

Steve Williams Tuesday, June 14th 2022 at 11:27PM

Yes Ron. My son was someone who liked to help people. This murderer hid his true nature.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Wednesday, June 15th 2022 at 9:35AM

Thank you Steve for answering my question about your son's murderer. If you want to continue to talk about this blog subject, we can because I don't believe this young thug, knew the kids he was randomly shooting at and killing in cold blood with an AR-15.





Steve Williams Wednesday, June 15th 2022 at 1:55PM

I think it's a good thing he's dead.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Wednesday, June 15th 2022 at 2:37PM

Ok! I will be looking up on information on the one that is Alive.

Steve Williams Thursday, June 16th 2022 at 9:30PM

Hopefully that one will get the death penalty under Federal law.

Steve Williams Thursday, June 16th 2022 at 9:32PM

Except Biden isn't that smart.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Thursday, June 16th 2022 at 11:22PM

Biden, has nothing to do with this case.

Steve Williams Friday, June 17th 2022 at 1:24PM

The US Justice Department has announced a halt on federal executions after a historic use of capital punishment by the Trump administration, which killed 13 people in executions over six months.

Attorney-General Merrick Garland said he was imposing a moratorium on federal executions while the Justice Department conducts a review of its policies and procedures.

"The Department of Justice must ensure that everyone in the federal criminal justice system is not only afforded the rights guaranteed by the constitution and laws of the United States, but is also treated fairly and humanely," Mr Garland said.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-02/us-...

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, June 17th 2022 at 2:12PM

Now what do that have to do with Biden, Steve?

Steve Williams Friday, June 17th 2022 at 11:57PM

Because Biden picked Garland and Garland does whatever Biden tells him to do.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Saturday, June 18th 2022 at 1:10PM

No Steve, Biden gives Garland has indepences so much it looks like Garland is protecting Trump.

Biden said when he introduced Garland as his choice to be the nation's top prosecutor in early January. "I want to be clear to those who lead this department, who you will serve. You won’t work for me. ... Your loyalty is not to me. It’s to the law, the Constitution, the people of this nation, to guarantee justice."

Steve Williams Saturday, June 18th 2022 at 4:27PM

Biden is a f-ucking liar Ron. Of course Garland takes Biden's lead, and Biden said during the "campaign", if that's what you call hiding in the basement and receiving a few occasional honks, that he would eliminate Federal executions. So under BidenGarland your Buffalo boy will not get his due. I call that a YP (your problem.)

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Sunday, June 19th 2022 at 9:06AM

Just look at you Steve: "Biden is a f-ucking liar Ron" Steve, I know that you can express yourself better than that! I hope that this young thug Payton Gendron receives his justice due because of law. Steve, his statement that he was motive was to prevent 'eliminating the white race'.

He really sounds like what a PROUD BOY would say. Where do you think he gets this kind of hate from?


Steve Williams Sunday, June 19th 2022 at 10:56PM

Not from the Proud Boys, who are western chauvenists and have never espoused white supremacy. You think we forget that during the debate it was Biden that first named the Proud Boys, not Trump. But we remember Ron, how you spun your fairy tale of the Proud Boys.

I rarely express myself with the F-Word Ron, but there is no other way to describe Biden's foul lying empty soul.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Monday, June 20th 2022 at 3:02PM

You Will Not Replace Us” is a white supremacist slogan that became popular in early 2017, as did its acronym version, YWNRU. The slogan appeared on white supremacist flyers, banners and graffiti in a variety of places in the first six months of 2017, gaining wider attention when white supremacists used the phrase at several rallies held in Charlottesville, Virginia, culminating in the large and violent Unite the Right event in August 2017.

The slogan is a reference to the popular white supremacist belief that the white race is in danger of extinction by a rising tide of non-whites who are controlled and manipulated by Jews (in fact, one variant of “You Will Not Replace Us” is “Jews Will Not Replace Us”).

Steve Williams Monday, June 20th 2022 at 9:44PM

Gavin McInnes, the leader of the self-described "Western chauvinist" Proud Boys was invited to attend but declined because of an unwillingness "to be associated with explicit neo-Nazis" although the militia wing of the group the aforementioned Fraternal Order of the Alt-Knights did attend.[21] In June, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center's Hatewatch blog, ahead of the rally, McInnes declared that "we need to distance ourselves from them", but "after backlash to the original disavowal flared-up from Alt-Right circles, the statement was withdrawn and replaced with another distancing the Proud Boys from the event yet also encouraging those who 'feel compelled' to attend".[94]

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Tuesday, June 21st 2022 at 10:33AM

Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Tue, June 21, 2022, 6:00 AM·4 min read


Proud Boys Zachary Rehl, left, and Ethan Nordean march toward the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Members of the right-wing extremist group were indicted on charges that they planned and carried out a coordinated attack on the Capitol to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election.

Withdraw from race over Proud Boys tie

I spent more than two decades of my professional life fighting hatred and antisemitism in my former role as CEO of the Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee. So when I read that Robyn Marinelli, a candidate for the Sarasota County School Board, is willingly accepting support from the Proud Boys, I cannot adequately express my horror, disgust and fear (“Sarasota Proud Boys activist helping host School Board candidate campaign event,” June 15).

Marinelli claims she did not know of the association. She does now.

Simply put, the Proud Boys are a hate group. They have actively called for violence and perpetuated conflict. They have disrupted School Board meetings and protested outside the homes of School Board members, threatening them with bodily harm.

You are a part of a hate group, are you proud of that?

Steve Williams Wednesday, June 22nd 2022 at 1:59PM

I'm just a law-abiding lifetime member of the NRA Ron.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Wednesday, June 22nd 2022 at 5:09PM

Simply put, YOU ARE APART OF the Proud Boys a hate group by your own word, You are a part of a hate group, are you proud of that?




Steve Williams Thursday, June 23rd 2022 at 9:41PM

Who said I was a part of the Proud Boys Ron? How do you define "hate group?"

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, June 24th 2022 at 12:41PM

Are you a member of The Proud Boys, Steve?

Steve Williams Friday, June 24th 2022 at 4:24PM

No Ron. I posted a video of the Proud Boys on J6, by Eddie Block.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, June 24th 2022 at 7:10PM

Are you Proud of what the Proud Boy's are doing?

Steve Williams Saturday, June 25th 2022 at 3:44AM

I think they have a good idea, getting elected to school boards. Do you believe in democracy Ron?

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Saturday, June 25th 2022 at 4:03PM

A school board elected of the people is always a good thing. Steve, Are you Proud of what the Proud Boy's are doing?

1. Do you believe The Group Considers Themselves a Multi-Racial ‘Fraternal Brotherhood’ Who ‘Disavows Nazis’ & Racists?

2. The Proud Boys Say There Are 10 Ways to ‘Save America’ Including Giving Everyone a Gun, Abolishing Prisons & Legalizing Drugs

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