I'm Laura Coates and this is CNN Tonight.

You know, some people will tell you that kids, they say the darnedest things.

Others will simply say, out of the mouths of babes if you're my grandmother.

But today we heard the truth from the mouth of a child who should be asking to ride her

bicycle with that voice, not having to testify before the House representatives about how

she was forced to try and save her own life and did.

Her quick thinking should be commended, but the fact that she had to even do it should

be condemned.

Nearly three weeks since a child was forced to confront pure evil, we're getting a

glimpse of the horror she witnessed from inside that classroom.

I went to there and shot my teacher and told me she'd drink a night and shot her in the

head.

And then he shot some of my classmates and the whiteboard.

When I went to the barracks, he shot my friend that was next to me and I thought he

was going to come back to the room and try to go look at the blood and put it all on me.

If that had been a fiction, parents would not let a child her age read it.

Had it been a movie, it'd be almost a decade before the rating system would allow someone

like her to watch it.

But it's not fiction, and it wasn't a movie.

And I bet it will replay in her mind for the rest of her beautiful life and it's no

fault of her own or any of those children or teachers whose lives were stolen or the

children of Rob Elementary or of Evalde or of Texas or of the entire country who now

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