Actress Melissa Joan Hart, during a visit to Capitol Hill, recounted seeing children fleeing the Covenant School mass shooting in Nashville last year.
“The fear on their faces and the terror and the confusion … these memories will not allow me to stop fighting,” Hart said. “Laws do change. In fact, it happens all the time to make our world a safer place.”
Hart joined victims of gun violence during a Senate roundtable event Wednesday. The roundtable was organized by Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) to discuss the “GOSAFE Act,” a bill introduced last November to protect communities from gun violence by restricting how quickly someone can reload gas-operated semi-automatic guns, while safeguarding Americans’ constitutional right to own a firearm.
“I used to believe that you couldn’t mess with the Second Amendment because that’s a threat to our freedom as Americans,” Hart continued. “But now I can say that we are not free as long as weapons of war are allowed in the hands of untrained, unchecked citizens.”
