In Washington to make case for gun control, Uvalde families met people who know their pain
Patience and Alex Murray spend time with Uvalde families walking to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. Patience was shot twice at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., in 2016, and Alex’s 18-year-old sister was among the 49 killed that night.WASHINGTON — Velma Duran took an aisle seat three rows from the back of the airliner, gripping a silver rosary and praying. Each bead was heart shaped. She got through half of it before takeoff.
“It’s been over six months. They all said wait, it’s a process, let yourself heal, but I didn’t think it would take this long,” Duran, 51, an elementary school teacher in San Antonio’s North East Independent School District, said later that night in a restaurant attached to a Holiday Inn outside Washington.
The trip to Washington was an even longer shot, paid for by a nonprofit, March Fourth, created in response to the July 4 shooting in Highland Park, Ill. Thedoesn’t have the 60 votes needed for it to pass the Senate and is unlikely to be revived next session, when Republicans control the House. Po Murray, co-founder and chairperson of the Newtown Action Alliance, embraces Kimberly Mata-Rubio as Jazmin Cazares, 17, watches, after Mata-Rubio spoke about the loss of her daughter Lexi during the National Vigil for All Victims of Gun Violence in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. Mata-Rubio and Cazares traveled there from Uvalde to share stories about the 21 victims of the Robb Elementary massacre.Patience Murray was shot twice at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., in 2016.
“It’s a hard-fought battle, if I’m going to be completely honest,” Angel Garza, who lost his step-daughter, Amerie, 10, in the shooting, said of the gun restrictions he was there to lobby for. “I am 100 percent for a total ban, but I don’t think we will be able to push that for the whole country.” Garcia doesn’t think banning guns will keep schools safe. Fortifying campuses makes more sense to him. But despite being skeptical about the specific demand of the protest, he was glad he made the trip.
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