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Public safety panel fails to advance ban on semiautomatic military-style assault weapons

By Tim Walker
Harry Kaiser, a gym teacher at Annunciation Catholic School, embraces his daughter Lydia following his testimony before the House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee Feb. 24 in support of HF3433 and HF3402. Lydia, an eighth grader at the school, survived gunshot wounds to her head. (Photo by Michele Jokinen)
Harry Kaiser, a gym teacher at Annunciation Catholic School, embraces his daughter Lydia following his testimony before the House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee Feb. 24 in support of HF3433 and HF3402. Lydia, an eighth grader at the school, survived gunshot wounds to her head. (Photo by Michele Jokinen)

In calm and measured tones, but nonetheless tones filled with palpable emotion, Jackie Flavin brought the horror of the Aug. 27 mass shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis to a Capitol hearing room Tuesday.

At the testifier’s table, Flavin recounted the horrifying events of that day when her 10-year-old daughter, Harper Moyski, died from bullet wounds coming from an assailant wielding an assault-style firearm and two other weapons.

That day, 116 rounds were fired, and in two minutes, Harper and Fletcher Merkel were dead. Dozens more people were severely wounded.

Bullets hit Harper in the head and the neck, causing severe damage.
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