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Chris Murphy: “I can't speak for Ian and Nicole, nor for the other parents, but I'm pretty sure that they don't think that change is…”

On the recordDecember 20, 2012
I can't speak for Ian and Nicole, nor for the other parents, but I'm pretty sure that they don't think that change is more guns.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

Murphy criticizes the NRA's suggestion that more guns are the solution to gun violence.

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