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On the recordMay 24, 2022
By doing nothing, again, by reelecting all the same people who do nothing, year after year, you are inviting another set of families and another set of families to go through that horror scene that happened last night in Texas that I experienced and went through with those families in Sandy Hook.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

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Murphy warns that inaction leads to more tragedies and emphasizes the need for change.

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