Mary McNamara: 'What are we doing?' After the Texas school shooting, Sen. Chris Murphy speaks for us all
"What are we doing?" That's what Sen. Christopher S. Murphy, D-Conn., asked after 21 people, including 19 children, were killed during a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday, a little more than a week after what authorities have called the racially motivated murder of 10 people in a Buffalo, New York, supermarket. "There've been more mass shootings than days in the year. … Our ...
"What are we doing?"
That's what Sen. Christopher S. Murphy, D-Conn., asked after 21 people, including 19 children, were killed during a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday, a little more than a week after what authorities have called the racially motivated murder of 10 people in a Buffalo, New York, supermarket.
"There've been more mass shootings than days in the year. ⌠Our kids are living in fear," he said.
A longtime supporter of gun control legislation, Murphy was specifically addressing his colleagues in the Senate chambers. "Why go through all the hassle of getting this job, of putting yourself in a position of authority if your answer, as the slaughter increases as our kids run for their lives, we do nothing?"
