幸存者独立日游行大规模枪击和德克萨斯州乌瓦尔迪，大规模枪击周三聚集在华盛顿特区举行集会，游行到国会大厦要求禁止攻击性武器。

金伯利·卢比奥，10岁的卫莱·卢比奥的母亲在这21个人中她在5月24日乌瓦尔迪的罗布小学枪击事件中被枪杀，在向人群发表讲话时，她激动不已。

“我试着通过她的眼睛去看111号房间。我想象她和她的同学挤在房间的哪一边，”她说。“我想象着面对太平绅士的情景...当他走进我最小的女儿的教室时，她的任务是给死去的多名9岁、10岁和11岁的孩子发音。”

“现在我想让你想象我的脸，我丈夫的脸，当我们读我们女儿的死亡证明时...我们读到她的死因是头部枪伤，”卢比奥说。

卢比奥说，她“愤怒得要命”，并“要求改变”

“那天早上10:54我和女儿在一起，有很多‘如果’如果我在颁奖仪式后带她回家会怎么样?如果门已经锁好了呢?”她说。

但卢比奥说，她希望立法者首先考虑的问题是:“如果枪手从未获得攻击性武器，会怎么样?我希望这个问题成为他们早上第一个想到的问题，也是他们睡觉前的最后一个想法。”

安吉尔·加尔扎，他10岁的继女艾蜜蕊·乔·加尔扎在乌瓦尔迪遇难，拿起话筒时流下了眼泪。

“我向你保证，我向你保证——你不希望这种事发生在你身上，”他说。

Oscar Orona向人群讲述了他的儿子Noah Orona的故事，他在Uvalde的教室里被人从背后开枪打死，并在大屠杀中幸存下来。诺亚流血，试图装死，等了一个多小时才获救，他目睹了一个同学最后一次呼吸，“鲜血从她的嘴里和鼻子里汩汩流出来，”他的父亲说。

“我的儿子和我们在一起，但他不一样了，”奥罗纳说，敦促人们不要忘记幸存者。"他们每天都面临一场艰苦的战斗。"

“我嫉妒高地公园社区，因为他们的立法者在这里大声疾呼禁止突击步枪。我希望我能告诉你，我们在德克萨斯州也有同样的经历，但是我们没有。“我不会休息...直到我们在德州禁止突击步枪。”

伊利诺伊州高地公园的一名妇女与她的丈夫和三个孩子一起参加了上周的7月4日游行大规模射击，她告诉人群她6岁的女儿上周一直在问她的问题:“妈妈，子弹能穿过我的门吗?他们能在晚上我睡觉的时候穿过我的窗户吗?...子弹要打到我哪里才能杀死我?我的噩梦什么时候会停止?...我们藏起来的时候，你是不是用手捂着我的心脏，因为你会阻止子弹打死我?”

七人死亡一名持枪者用高能步枪向游行者开火，数十人受伤。

她说她女儿最让她夜不能寐的问题是:“妈咪，这不会再发生在我身上了吧?”

伊利诺伊州众议员简·沙科夫斯基。周二，他会见了高地公园的幸存者，感谢集会者，告诉他们，“你们现在是禁止攻击性武器的正义战士。”

“答案是永远不要放弃，直到我们禁止这些战争武器，”她说。

枪击发生时，集会参与者娜塔莉·洛伦兹正和她的母亲、丈夫以及三个年幼的孩子一起参加上周的独立日游行。

“我有时会感到恐慌、焦虑，就像回到了那里。洛仑兹周三告诉美国广播公司新闻节目“早安美国”。“然后是麻木的时刻，我在划分区域，试图把一只脚放在另一只的前面。”

伊利诺伊州参议员谭美·达克沃斯。星期三，也在集会上发表讲话的希拉里·克林顿告诉“GMA ”,当她看到枪声的录像时，声音让她想起了在伊拉克战争中服役的日子。

2022年7月13日，谭美·达克沃斯参议员在3月4日在华盛顿州美国国会大厦附近举行的集会上发表讲话，呼吁在持续发生大规模枪击事件后，对枪支进行普遍的背景调查，并禁止攻击性武器。

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“这是一种非常独特的声音，我最后一次在7月4日听到它是在伊拉克。我从没想过会在美国本土听到它...尤其是在美国的小城镇，”杜克沃斯说。

杜克沃斯称赞道乔·拜登总统上个月签署的两党枪支安全一揽子计划成为法律，打破了国会山近30年的僵局。但她表示，必须采取更多措施，包括禁止攻击性武器、禁止大容量弹夹和实施普遍背景调查。

自2012年桑迪胡克大屠杀以来，康涅狄格州民主党参议员克里斯·墨菲(Chris Murphy)一直倡导枪支改革，他在集会上说，“我们在过去30天取得的进展比过去30年都多。我们通过的法案将拯救生命。”

“经过30年的一无所有，我们终于变得比枪支游说团体更强大。现在，没有什么可以阻止我们，”他说，告诉人群，他们应该继续推动和要求禁止攻击性武器。

“它来得不够快。我们没有太多的时间，”墨菲说。

洛伦兹说，预计将有500多人参加周三的集会。她说，该小组还将于周三在白宫参加会议，并与美国代表会面。

“我们不打算离开或停止谈论它，直到我们做出一些真正的改变，”洛伦兹说。

Angry Uvalde parents, parade mass shooting survivors rally to demand assault weapons ban

Survivors of theFourth of July parade mass shootingand theUvalde, Texas, mass shootingconverged in Washington, D.C., Wednesday for a rally and march to the Capitol to demand a ban on assault weapons.

Kimberly Rubio, the mother of 10-year-old Lexi Rubio, who wasamong the 21 peoplegunned down in the May 24 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, was overcome with emotion as she addressed the crowd.

"I try to view Room 111 through her eyes. I picture which side of the room she and her classmates huddled against," she said. "I envision the scene facing the justice of the peace ... as he walked into my youngest daughter's classroom tasked with pronouncing dead multiple 9-, 10- and 11-year-olds."

"Now I want you to picture my face, my husband's face, as we read our daughter's death certificate ... as we read her cause of death -- gunshot wound to the head," Rubio said.

Rubio said she's "angry as hell" and is "demanding change."

"I was with my daughter at 10:54 that morning and there are a lot of 'what ifs.' What if I had taken her home after the award ceremony? What if the doors had just locked properly?" she said.

But Rubio said the question she wants to be on the forefront of lawmakers' minds is: "What if the gunman never had access to an assault weapon? I want that question to be the first thing to cross their mind in the morning and the last thought they have before they go to bed."

Angel Garza, whose 10-year-old stepdaughter, Amerie Jo Garza, was killed in Uvalde, wept as he took the mic.

"I promise you, I promise you -- you do not want this to happen to you," he said.

Oscar Orona told the crowd about his son, Noah Orona, who was shot in the back in his Uvalde classroom and managed to survive the massacre. As Noah bled, tried to play dead and waited over one hour to be rescued, he witnessed a classmate take her last breaths, "gurgling blood through her mouth and her nose," his father said.

"My son is with us, but he is not the same," Orona said, urging people to not forget about the survivors. "They face an uphill battle every day."

"I'm jealous of the Highland Park community because their lawmakers are here speaking out for banishing assault rifles. I wish I could tell you that we had in Texas the same experience, but we do not," he said. "I will not rest ... until we ban assault rifles in Texas."

A Highland Park, Illinois, woman who was at last week's Fourth of July parade mass shooting with her husband and three children told the crowd about the questions her 6-year-old daughter has been asking her over the last week: "Mommy, can bullets get through my door? Can they go through my window at night when I'm sleeping? ... Where does a bullet have to hit me to kill me? When will my nightmares stop? ... Was your hand over my heart when we were hiding because you would stop the bullet from killing me?"

Seven people were killedand dozens were injured when a gunman opened fire on parade-goers with a high-powered rifle.

She said her daughter's question that keeps her up at night the most is: "Mommy, this won't happen again to me, right?"

Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., who met with Highland Park survivors on Tuesday, thanked the rally-goers, telling them, "You now are the warriors for justice for a ban on assault weapons."

"The answer is to not ever give up until we ban these weapons of war," she said.

Rally participant Natalie Lorentz was at last week's Fourth of July parade with her mother, husband and three young children when the gunfire broke out.

"I have moments where I feel panic, anxiety, like I'm back there. Moments of just overwhelming sadness," Lorentz told ABC News' "Good Morning America" Wednesday. "Then moments of just numbness where I'm compartmentalizing and trying to put one foot in front of the other."

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., who also addressed the rally, told "GMA" Wednesday that when she saw video of the gunfire, the sounds brought her back to her time serving in the Iraq War.

"It's a very distinctive sound, and the last time I heard it on the Fourth of July was in Iraq. And I never thought I'd hear it on U.S. soil ... especially in small-town America," Duckworth said.

Duckworth commendedthe bipartisan gun safety package President Joe Biden signed into law last month,which broke a nearly 30-year stalemate on Capitol Hill. But she said more must be done, including banning assault weapons, banning high-capacity magazines and enacting universal background checks.

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., an advocate for gun reform since the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, said at the rally, "We have made more progress in the last 30 days than we made in the last 30 years. And the bill that we passed will save lives."

"After 30 years of nothing, we have finally become stronger than the gun lobby. Now, nothing can stop us," he said, telling the crowd they should keep pushing and demand an assault weapons ban.

"It can't come fast enough. We do not have the luxury of time," Murphy said.

Over 500 people were expected to attend Wednesday's rally, Lorentz said. The group is also set to attend meetings Wednesday at the White House and with U.S. representatives, she said.

"We don't plan to go away or to stop talking about it until we make some real change," Lorentz said.