Chris Murphy actually said...
I listened to my Republican colleagues come down here one after another today and talk about the sanctity of life. At the very moment that moms and dads in Michigan were being told that their kids weren`t coming home because they were shot at school due to a country that has accepted gun violence due to Republicans fealty to the gun lobby. Do not lecture us about the sanctity, the importance of life, when 100 people every single day are losing their lives to guns, when kids go to school fearful that they won`t return home because a classmate will turn a gun on them, when it is in our control whether this happens, you care about life, then get these dangerous military style weapons, off the streets, out of our schools. You care about life, make sure that criminals don`t get guns by making sure that everyone goes through a background check in this country. This only happens to the United States of America. There`s no other nation in the high-income world in which kids worry about being shot when they go to school. It happens here in America because we choose to let it happen. We`re not unlucky. This is purposeful. This is a choice made by the United States Senate to sit on our hands and do nothing while kids die. It doesn`t even involve any political risk. The changes we`re talking about in order to make our schools safe places they`re supported by the vast majority of Americans, Republicans and Democrats. And yet the gun lobby and the gun industry is more important, to have half of the members of the Senate then is the safety of our kids, and that is infuriating.
12/01/2021