Sandy Hook 2 years later: One senator's push for gun control
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Washington (CNN) -- Sunday marks the second anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre that killed twenty children and six teachers on December 14, 2012. And though Congress hasn't passed any gun reform laws in its wake, there's one senator who's made it his mission to persistently push for changes, even when no one's listening.
For the past two years, Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democrat, has been traveling to the Senate floor, month after month, to detail the growing numbers of people killed by gun violence. He calls these speeches, "Voices of Victims."
Asked what drives him to continually make his plea, he said it's to keep "the drum beat up on the Senate floor."
To him, telling victim's stories, identifying who they were, what they enjoyed, where they lived, personalizes the issue and hopefully makes it harder for his colleagues and state lawmakers to ignore.
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"It is beyond comprehension that Congress is watching this epidemic of school shootings and chooses to do nothing," Murphy added.
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