Patty Murray: “I pose a question to the Members of this body, a question asked by 750,000 mothers, fathers, and children who gathered…”

“I pose a question to the Members of this body, a question asked by 750,000 mothers, fathers, and children who gathered in our Nation's Capital for the Million Mom March this past weekend. It is a question being asked by tens of thousands of people who took part in rallies across 70 cities in this country this last weekend. It is a question being asked after every school shooting and after every other act of gun violence. I ask my colleagues: What will it take to get this Congress to pass commonsense gun legislation? Do we have to wait for more innocent people to lose their lives before this Congress will act? Currently, 12 children die every day from gunfire. Do we have to wait for our homes and places of worship to become crime scenes? Lord knows, we have seen enough of that. Do we have to wait for our schools, places where our children should feel safe and loved, to become war zones?”