Richard Blumenthal actually said...

I would urge you to reconsider. I think the test that you are imposing is out of touch with the reality of what assault weapons do.

I was at Sandy Hook the afternoon of that massacre. I do not know whether you have been at these kinds of scenes.

I would like you to tell me that I am wrong, and I would like you to tell me that you would put aside your Heller II dissent, and as a membe...

A ban on assault weapons might well have saved them.