Chris Murphy

Nearly 10 years after Sandy Hook shooting, Chris Murphy pleads with colleagues to take action on gun control.

“Why are we here if not to try to make sure that fewer schools and fewer communities go through what Sandy Hook has gone through? It’s all about political power, and political muscle, and we’re in the process of building our own.” “Why are you here if not to solve a problem as existential as this?”

After 21 people, including 19 children, are shot to death at a school, this country must decide if it accepts a culture of self-imposed mass murder.

As voters, we are responsible for electing officials who will see those laws passed, who will see this crisis of gun violence for what it is and do everything in their power to end it. So what are we doing? So what are we doing? I remember in the early days of the pandemic, when my youngest was struggling with online learning, she wiped her tears and looked at me with a grin saying: “Well, at least I don’t have to worry about school shootings.” Racist people can do many terrible things but they can kill 10 people in a grocery store or 23 people at a Walmart only if they have a specific kind of gun. Like many, I thought the horror of Sandy Hook would yank gun control out of the swamp of gun-lobby-controlled politics and into the realm of public safety. I’m tired of living in fear for my children, my friends, my life, my country, because some people think protecting the right to own guns designed for mass slaughter is more important than protecting the lives of Americans. Having located the source of the sound, I nearly vomited in relief. My kids grew up in a home without guns not because I hate guns, but because they went to schools that had regular shooter drills. I was in the car before I could even think clearly. A longtime supporter of gun control legislation, Murphy was specifically addressing his colleagues in the Senate chambers. He was certainly speaking for most Americans, the vast majority of whom support some form of gun control, including a ban on semiautomatic weapons.

"What are we doing?" the senator asked, comparing the shooting to one at Sandy Hook Elementary a decade prior.

What are we doing? “What are we doing? Nowhere else do parents have to talk to their kids, as I have had to do, about why they got locked into a bathroom and told to be quiet for five minutes just in case a bad man entered that building.”

Democratic US Senator Chris Murphy implored his colleagues to act to combat gun violence hours after a gunman killed 19 children and two adults at a primary ...

And that's why we have mass shooting after mass shooting." "There's just not a coincidence that we're the high-income-world's deadliest nation and we have the loosest gun laws. ... We're an outlier when it comes to access to firearms and the ability of criminals and very sick people to get their arms on firearms. If not to solve a problem as existential as this," he added. and said that this latest school shooting occurred just days after a teenager walked into a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, to " gun down African American patrons". Sen. Chris Murphy delivers remarks on the Texas elementary school shooting: "What are we doing?

Connecticut Democrat challenges U.S. Senate to act on gun laws after 14 children shot in Uvalde, Texas.

“What are we doing? “What are we doing?” Why are we here?” “What are we doing?” “What are we doing? “Find a path forward here. The Sandy Hook victims would be in high school this year. “You should know, there is a moral price for inaction.” “Nowhere else do parents have to talk to their kids, as I have had to do, about why they got locked into a bathroom and told to be quiet for five minutes just in case a bad man entered that building. Nowhere else do little kids go to school thinking that they might be shot that day,” Murphy said. “There are more mass shootings than days in the year. The answer in the U.S. Senate has been nothing.

A deadly and brutal mass shooting occurred in a Texas elementary school, and Sen. Chris Murphy delivered a rather emotional speech regarding the shooting.

He said that he wanted the lawmakers to work with them and do something about these killers who have broken brains, and they see the government doing nothing after mass shootings. He stated that it doesn't happen anywhere that children go to school fearing for their lives, and it is the American people's own choice to keep letting it happen. He said that he wanted the lawmakers to work with them and do something about these killers who have broken brains, and they see the government doing nothing after mass shootings. He stated that it doesn't happen anywhere that children go to school fearing for their lives, and it is the American people's own choice to keep letting it happen. Murphy stated that the children are fearful of going to school as they fear that it will be them who will be killed next. Murphy stated that the children are fearful of going to school as they fear that it will be them who will be killed next.

Democratic Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, who formerly represented Sandy Hook, gave a viral speech in the wake of the Uvalde, Texas elementary school ...

You cannot explain this through a prism of mental illness because we’re not an outlier on mental illness," Murphy told reporters, according to the Guardian. "We’re an outlier when it comes to access to firearms and the ability of criminals and very sick people to get their arms on firearms. According to the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence, people with mental illnesses are more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators of it. It is our choice to let it continue." Sen. Murphy is calling for changes to legislation because, as he put, "this happens nowhere else but here in the United States of America." But his calls might be landing on deaf ears. "It is a choice. "Why do you go through all the hassle of getting this job, or putting yourself in a position of authority if your answer is that as this slaughter increases, as our kids run for their lives, we do nothing," he asked his Republican colleagues.