Chris Murphy

Red flag laws are primarily used to stop suicides, very successfully.

If America really cared about human life, why would we do nothing?

I think it feels different because the public out there, parents, and kids are really scared. They are really scared, and they are making it clear to my colleagues that doing nothing is just not an option this time around.

Republicans in Florida passed a red flag law that has been used 5,000 times since it was passed.

I learned after Sandy Hook is that this town, Washington, is about political power, and the anti-gun violence movement had very little in 2012.

This moment does feel different. I think it feels different because the public out there, parents, and kids are really scared.

Everything that we include in this piece of legislation has to be able to get 60 votes in the Senate and right now we`re actively exploring what can we get 60 votes. I don`t think there`s any reason why we came to agreement by the end of…

I remain optimistic that a deal can be reached by the end of the week, and that it might even include some of the items that the president laid out during his prime-time address on gun violence last week.

I've never been part of negotiations as serious as these. There are more Republicans at the table talking about changing our gun laws and investing in mental health than at any time since Sandy Hook.

I'm certainly prepared for failure.

I`ve never seen more Republicans at the table willing to talk about changes in our gun laws than I do today. We`re talking about a comprehensive package that will allow Republicans to take that step forward and learn that in fact, there`s…

Senator Murphy has said that he`s not going to give Republicans all day and all night to work on this, that if he gets -- if he gets the sense that they`re not serious, then they will go sort of move ahead on their own.

I do think that should change.

We are going to work every single minute of every single day over the course of this week and next week to try to get enough of our Republican colleagues to yes. I hope they are moved by what they have witnessed in the way that the rest of…

I have never believed that this is a mental health problem. We don`t have any more mental illness than any other country in the world. But we have all the gun violence.

Since Uvalde, we have had somewhere around 20 mass shootings, including now, it appears, at a hospital. We have had more mass shootings this year than days in the year. They are happening at a pace that we have never, ever seen before in…

We have to prove that to Republicans. And so what are we talking about in this legislation? We`re talking about red flag laws. We`re talking about strengthening our background check system.

I think there are Republicans who are emotionally moved by what occurred. And I think that we have had 10 years since Sandy Hook to build up an anti-gun violence movement in this country that`s strong.

I have had the football pulled out from under me enough times before in these negotiations to be realistic about our prospects for success on the table our red flag laws, changes to our background checks, systems safe storage, investments…

What are we doing? Why are you here, if not to solve a problem as existential as this?

I go down to the Senate floor to talk about this in the wake of the shootings because I just really worry that there is something rotting in the American core that is making us numb to the slaughter. I think we are on the verge of just…

I think we are on the verge of just thinking that this is normal and losing our sense of outrage.

Your community could be next if we do nothing, again. And that’s why I need people to rise up right now and get up tomorrow morning and make a call to your senator, make a call your member of Congress, tell them that you don’t want your…

I just want people to understand that -- I want people to understand why there are no open caskets after Sandy Hook. And think about whether you want another set of families to go through that.

If Congress fails to act, and there are things that the administration could do on their own to tighten up the nation's gun laws.