Tuesday 24 May 2022 11:40 PM Sen. Chris Murphy begs Congress for gun reform in wake of Uvalde shooting ten ... trends now
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Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy made an impassioned plea to the Senate to enact gun reform on Tuesday in the wake of the Uvalde elementary school shooting, ten years after the Sandy Hook massacre which happened in his district.
Murphy was the Democratic Congressman for Connecticut's fifth district - which took in the school - when gunman Adam Lanza opened fire in December 2012.
On Tuesday, after fourteen kids and a teacher were shot dead at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, he made a desperate plea to Republicans to pass laws that would put an end to such atrocities.
'Fourteen kids dead in an elementary school in Texas right now. What are we doing? What are we doing? Just days after a shooter walked into a grocery store to gun down African American patrons, we have another Sandy Hook on our hands. What are we doing?!
'As the kids run for their lives, we doing nothing. What are we doing? Why are you here if not to solve a problem as existential as this? This isn't inevitable. These kids weren't unlucky. This only happens in this country and nowhere else,' he said.
He went on: 'I am here on this floor to beg. To literally get down on my hands and knees and beg my colleagues: find a path forward here. Pass laws that make this less likely.'
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Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy made an impassioned plea to Congress to enact gun reform on Tuesday in the wake of the Uvalde elementary school shooting, ten years after the Sandy Hook massacre which happened in his district
