MI: Senate panel hears wrenching testimony from survivors, county prosecutors on gun control bills
An 11-bill package aimed at preventing gun violence in the wake of last month’s Michigan State University mass shooting received its first Senate committee hearing, with votes slated for next week before measures move to the full chamber.
“I unconsciously step over the places in our school hallway where my classmates died. Is this how America wants our youth to grow up?” asked Oxford High School senior Dylan Morris on Thursday as he sat before the Senate Civil Rights, Judiciary, and Public Safety Committee.
Morris, a survivor of the 2021 Oxford shooting that claimed four young lives, was just one of numerous school shooting survivors who testified during the three-hour-long hearing.
State Sen. Stephanie Chang (D-Detroit), chair of the committee, said the panel will continue to hear testimony and possibly vote on the firearm-related bills at the next regularly scheduled committee meeting on March 9. A House panel on Wednesday heard testimony on similar bills.
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/senate-panel-hears-wrenching-testimony-survivors-county-prosecutors-gun-control-bills
