Senator Chris Murphy Gives Emotional Plea Asking Congress To Pass Gun Control Laws

Yet another mass shooting, this time leaving 19 elementary school children and two teachers dead, has prompted fierce outcry from advocates for better gun control, along with comparisons to the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut. And CT senator Chris Murphy is among those speaking up.

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Murphy spoke on the Senate floor not long after news of the Texas shooting broke, to condemn the fact that kids are still getting murdered in schools and United States politicians still refuse to do anything about it.

“Mr. President, there are 14 kids dead in an elementary school in Texas right now. What are we doing?” he asked. “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? There are more mass shootings than days in the year. Our kids are living in fear every single time they set foot in the classroom because they think they’re going to be next.”

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The senator went on to ask questions that so many Americans and people watching our seemingly endless gun crises unfold keep asking — namely, why politicians with power keep choosing to do nothing.

“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. Nowhere else do little kids go to school thinking that they might be shot that day,” he said. “It is our choice to let it continue. What are we doing?”

Murphy ultimately begged his Republican colleagues to find a common ground to pass common-sense gun laws.

Democrats have long run into problems trying to pass gun-related laws in the Senate, as they would need 10 Republicans to side with them in order to push something through.

But Americans across the political spectrum are tired of things being this way.

The worst part about thinking the 2A cant be altered is thats an amendment to begin with, well it needs to be amended again, no problem with people protecting themselves but having more guns than people is CRAZY and we do

— Bill McSpill (@EyeBallIFall) May 24, 2022

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I am old enough to remember my Senator Chris Murphy trying to get Republican to pass a background check gun bill after Sandy Hook and the GOP Senate voting NO. https://t.co/AOkFcI8PNc

— Nicoletta (@MissNicoletta) May 24, 2022

Some Americans would rather give all newborn babies a loaded gun out of the womb than to change 1 law to make gun laws a tad stricter.

— Jonathan Megna (@NYYJMM) May 25, 2022

Murphy later followed up on Twitter to say that he is “full of sadness and fury right now.”

“But I’m also determined. And pragmatic,” he continued. “If there is a single of my GOP colleagues who is moved to action by what happened today, I am ready to work with you. I am ready to compromise. To save lives.”

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*First Published: May 25, 2022, 6:37 am