One Nevada lawmaker’s journey from silence to action on preventing gun violence
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One Nevada lawmaker’s journey from silence to action on preventing gun violence | Las Vegas Review-Journal
Las Vegas Review-Journal[1] Skip to content[2] April 1, 2019 - 4:32 pm CARSON CITY — She survived the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting. But in the days, weeks and months following, Nevada Assemblywoman Sandra Jauregui did not want to be the one leading the way on gun control in the state.
No, she wanted to forget that night ever happened.
In the aftermath of the shooting that left 58 people dead and more than 800 wounded, Jauregui “completely shut down.” She found herself sleeping for 17 hours a day and unable to find the words to talk even to her family and closest friends about what she had experienced.
Five days after the shooting — at the advice of a counselor — she put her feelings in writing in a letter to her loved ones.
On Monday, 18 months after the shooting, Jauregui read that letter aloud while presenting Assembly Bill 291, which is aimed at banning bump stocks — the device used by the Route 91 shooter to unload more than 1,100 rounds into the crowd in just minutes. The bill would also give local governments the autonomy to pass their own gun laws.
Jauregui, a Las Vegas Democrat, was one of the 22,000 at the concert and was with her friends and then-fiance, now-husband. They found themselves near the front of the stage for Jason Aldean’s performance when first shots rang out from the 32nd floor of Mandalay
