| In an emotional and wide-ranging hearing before the House Committee on the Judiciary, survivors, victims' family members, local officials and other experts debated how federal officials could stop future killing sprees. Thursday's hearing was titled "Examining Uvalde: The Search for Bipartisan Solutions to Gun Violence," and it came a day after the 10-year anniversary of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., as Democrats continue to push for firearm restrictions that Republicans have called an infringement on the Second Amendment. But while Uvalde families beseeched Congress for action, asking, "Are we not tired of hearing yet another tragedy because of gun violence? When is enough enough?" for some, their cries fell on deaf ears. "There hasn't been an honest engagement and search for bipartisan solutions to gun violence — mostly because there's only one solution for my friends across the aisle, and that is to emasculate the Second Amendment and remove guns from from legal, lawful and law-abiding citizens," said U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs, an Arizona Republican who sits on the judiciary committee. Read the full story here. | 
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