Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy on Florida Shooting: We Are Responsible

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/democratic-senator-chris-murphy-on-florida-shooting-we-are-responsible?ref=home

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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) took the Senate floor on Wednesday afternoon with the intended purpose of discussing immigration legislation. Instead, he took a moment to castigate his Senate colleagues for having failed to legislate stricter gun laws as reports emerged of a mass school shooting in Florida. “Turn on your television right now, you're going to see scenes of children running for their lives,” Murphy, who dealt with the Newtown massacre firsthand, said. "What looks to be the 19th school shooting in this country and we have not even hit March. Let me just note once again for my colleagues: this happens nowhere else other than the United States of America. This epidemic of mass slaughter. This scourge of school shooting after school shooting. It only happens here, not because of coincidence, not because of bad luck, but as a consequence of our inaction. We are responsible for a level of mass atrocity that happens in this country with zero parallel anywhere else.”

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1. Thank you, Sen Chris Murphy!

[Phoenix61]

2. Wow! Spot on. nt

[Paladin]

3. Nobody's ever said it better. "...nowhere else other than the U.S.A."

This is our country's problem, and our leaders don't have the guts to do anything about it. A dozen more school slaughters from now, our leaders still won't have the guts to do anything about it. All we can do is stay alert, and pray that none of our loved ones are victims.