Vegas Survivors Call for Assault Weapons Ban; Vegas Survivors Call for Assault Weapons Ban.
KEILAR: The mass shooting at a Florida high school brought back painful memories for survivors of last October's massacre at a Las Vegas concert. CNN's Sara Sidner sat down with them to get their take on the current gun control debate.</s>SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Gunfire altered all of their lives during the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. Nearly five months later, the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, brought their terror right back.</s>CHRISTINE CARIA, LAS VEGAS SHOOTING SURVIVOR: I had an automatic reaction. I couldn't control it. I went in the bathroom and started vomiting, I was on the floor in a fetal position for two hours.</s>SIDNER: They know what these children are going through and the long road to recovery. This mother of two, Chelsea Romo still has many surgeries to get through, after shrapnel tore through both of her eyes. Initially blinding her.</s>CHELSEA ROMO, LAS VEGAS SHOOTING SURVIVOR: I thought about as my daughter grew up and not seeing her get married, seeing her become a woman, can see her face as she matures like, oh, it's crossed my mind. That's why now I thank god every day.</s>SIDNER: She is now laser focused on simply seeing her children grow. Survivors Heather Gooze and Christine Caria are helping other survivors, while nursing psychological wounds. Gooze, she spent hours holding bullet riddled strangers as their lives slipped away.</s>HEATHER GOOZE, LAS VEGAS SHOOTING SURVIVOR: He got shot in the back of the head. So, I reached under. I was holding a jeans jacket to the back of his head. The jacket had dropped, and my finger was in the bullet hole in the back of his head.</s>SIDNER: Page Melanson was hit in the elbow. Her mother shot in the chest. She is still in the hospital awaiting her tenth surgery. These survivors agree. America's leaders have not done enough to tackle a uniquely American problem.</s>PAGE MELANSON, LAS VEGAS SHOOTING SURVIVOR: I mean, after the Las Vegas shooting, they said it is not the right time to talk about guns. After the Texas shooting, they said it is not the right time talk about guns. After Parkland, oh, let them grieve. It is not the time. When is going to be the time?</s>CARIA: We all don't want to see babies die. We don't want to go to church or a concert and feel like we're going to get killed. We can do better than this as a nation.</s>SIDNER: Caria, a mother of two is convinced a ban on semi automatic assault style weapons and bump stocks is very good start. Her conviction's so strong, she became the president of the Las Vegas chapter of the Brady Campaign against gun violence.</s>CARIA: I am very pro second amendment. I love guns.</s>SIDNER: Heather Gooze never thought new gun legislation was needed until being covered in the blood of strangers. Do you have a problem with AR 15 assault style rifles?</s>GOOZE: Yes. I have a problem with a killing machine.</s>SIDNER: You have a problem with bump stocks?</s>GOOZE: 100 percent.</s>SIDNER: Why is it hard to say we need to ban AR assault-style weapons.</s>GOOZE: If people hear us say we need get rid of one certain type of gun, all they hear is you want to take my guns away.</s>SIDNER: Are you trying to take their guns away?</s>CARIA: No.</s>GOOZE: 100 percent, no. But is this a killing machine? Yes. Is it being used to commit mass murder? Yes. You know what? We need to start somewhere.</s>KEILAR: "THE LEAD" with Jake Tapper starts right now.