The Shooting Gallery: After a day of emotional testimony, House Democrats yesterday pushed through a bill to bar the sale of semiautomatic weapons to people under the age of 21 and ban the sale of large-capacity magazines. It has no chance of passing the Senate. 

  Earlier, the House heard testimony from parents who lost their daughter in the Uvalde school massacre and a girl who survived it.

  In testimony before the vote, Kimberly and Felix Rubio told how they had promised to take their daughter Lexi for ice cream that night when they dropped her off at elementary school in Uvalde, Texas the day she was killed in the massacre.

  Kimberly Rubio said by live video stream, “And then we left. I left my daughter at that school. That decision will haunt me for the rest of my life.” She said, “We understand that for some reason, to some people, to people with money, the people who fund political campaigns, that guns are more important than children.”

  Dr. Roy Guerrero from Uvalde described seeing children in the emergency room “pulverized” and “decapitated” by bullets. Some of the children had to be identified with DNA.

  Miah Cerrillo, a fourth grader who was wounded and played dead, said the gunman “shot my friend that was next to me.”

  Zeneta Everhart’s 21-year-old son was wounded at the Tops super market massacre in Buffalo. She said she’s always heard after mass shootings that this sort of attack  does not reflect on who we are as a nation. “Hear me clearly,” she said. “This is exactly who we are.”

  “Let me paint a picture for you,” she said. “My son Zaire has a hole in the right side of his neck, two on his back and another on his left leg. Caused by an exploding bullet from an AR-15. As I clean those wounds I can feel pieces of that bullet in his back.”

  She said, “I want you to picture that exact scenario for one of your children. This should not be your story or mine.”

Now Hear This: The House committee investigating the January 6^th insurrection is scheduled to hold a public hearing tonight broadcast across the country and laying out the timeline of the attempt to overturn the 2020 election with violence.

 The Committee is expected to start with the 2020 election and run through the riot and its aftermath. Democrats, who lead the investigation, have said the evidence will make the connection between the President Trump’s campaign to discredit the election and the attempt by rioters to stop Congress from certifying the vote for Joe Biden.

  It will be aired on CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, and ABC as well as C-SPAN.

The War Zone: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky says the battle for the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk is crucial as his outgunned troops fight to hold the Donbas region. Zelensky said last night in his nightly address that his troops continue to inflict losses on Russian forces. 

  Ukraine does not report its own losses, which outsiders believe to be severe.

  The capture of Sievierodonetsk puts the Russians closer to their seizing all of Donbas. Russia has an advantage in firepower and Zelensky is pleading with the US to send more weapons, more quickly.

  But the NY Times reports, “In close urban combat, Ukrainian soldiers feel that they have the advantage and can inflict heavy losses on the Russians.”

  On the economic front, the Treasury Department issued guidance that says American citizens, permanent residents, and companies are now prohibited from buying Russian stocks and bonds.

Triple Flip: Former Olympic gymnasts Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney and Aly Raisman headline a group of 90 women that filed a lawsuit against the FBI, claiming they mishandled their investigation of former Team USA doctor Larry Nassar, allowing him to continue to sexually abuse female gymnasts even after they had reported him to the bureau in 2015.

  The suit seeks $1 billion. Former Team USA gymnast Maggie Nichols said in a statement, “The FBI knew that Larry Nassar was a danger to children when his abuse of me was first reported in September of 2015. For 421 days they worked with USA Gymnastics and USOPC to hide this information from the public and allowed Nassar to continue molesting young women and girls.” 

The Spin Rack:  A Marine Corps vertical takeoff Osprey aircraft crashed in the California desert killing four of five Marines on board. In all, 46 people have died in accidents with the troubled aircraft. — Investigators say the man arrested with weapons outside the home of Supreme Kavanaugh called 911 on himself. — Colorado officials are looking into claims that Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert inflated the mileage she drove campaigning in 2020 then used more than $22,000 in reimbursement from donors to pay off tax liens on her restaurant. The reimbursement equated to 38,712 miles, more than 1 ½ times around the planet. — A California man arrested armed with a pistol and a knife near the Maryland home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh early yesterday said he had intended to kill the Supreme Court justice, according to federal investigators. — Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CNN that the immigration situation on the southern border is “a challenge that, for a whole variety of reasons, is beyond anything that anyone has seen before.” 

Father’s Day: Actor and television personality Nick Cannon, a prolific reproducer who has seven children by four mothers, admitted that he has more children on the way, maybe as many as three. Presumably he knows the mothers personally.

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