Senator pleads with colleagues to 'do something' about gun violence



“We have another Sandy Hook on our hands,” Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut said as he begged his colleagues to do something about gun violence.

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39 comments

  1. We need weapons. No leftists speeches.

  2. SHOOTINGS LIKE THIS ARE HAPPENING OVER AND OVER AND OVER. WE LISTEN FOR DAYS ON HOW THIS HAS GOT TO STOP, BUT CONGRESS DOES NOTHING. THEY ARE WORTHLESS. ALL THESE LEADERS OF OURS ARE COWARDS AND THEY HAVE FAILED. THEY ARE AS GUILTY AS THE KILLERS. LOCK THE DOORS IN THESE SCHOOLS . ONLY HAVE ONE ENTRANCE THAT EVERYBODY MUST GO THRU. PUT A GUARD AND METAL DETECTER THERE. DO THIS UNTIL YOU GREAT LEADERS DO SOMETHING. DO IT! DON'T COME UP WITH REASON WHY WE CAN'T. THE LEADERS OF THIS COUNTRY ARE GREAT AT THAT ( CAN'T DO IT ). THIS COUNTRY CAN AFFORD IT. SO DON'T USE THAT EXCUSE. WE SEND MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OUT OF THIS COUNTRY. IT'S TIME TO KEEP THE MONEY HERE AND STOP OUR CHILDREN FROM DEATH IN THEIR SCHOOLS. THIS IS PRIORITY ONE! ANY MAN OR WOMAN IN THE SENATE OR CONGRESS THAT SAYS NO TO THIS ARE COWARDS AND NEED TO BE REMOVED.

    PRIORITY ONE.. DO IT !!

  3. ladies and gentlemen, the greatest county in the world

  4. 10 years after Sandy Hook, nothing being done…why? because ppl with power dont care…

  5. This assclown is a major league hypocrite. He is so dramatic about gun violence but yet he supports the killing of millions of unborn babies each year

  6. Does the freakish Democrat want to do something about the homocides in Chicago, Washington, Detroit, Baltimore, Newark, NYC… all Democrat controlled hell-holes (and that for generations)? Of course not…. Disarming the Black Democrat thugs doing the shootings would be so RACIST. Lets go after the arms of LAW ABIDING CITIZENS so that Democrats can use these heavily armed DEMOCRAT THUGS to slaughter innocent Americans.

  7. Democrats aren't accountable enough for freedom. They need a baby sitter too dictate too them.

  8. That make you mad? Good!! Must have hit the nail dead nuts on the center of that truth nerve.

  9. Have a solution!! Not gun buy back. No gun laws at all. Citizen exchange!!
    Countries in this world that don't have the freedoms too own a gun, and would love too beable too protect their family.
    You take for granted those freedoms?
    Exchange you for a family that would love too be America and you can go let a dictatorship wipe your ASS.

  10. This country will never be the same after what Democrats have done .

  11. Maybe Mom and Dad can go get another job so Billy can go home and put his VR helmet on and the government can program his brain

  12. USA = Fucked up nation

  13. Why do Americans feels to hand mass killing machines to general public, its out of logic. Does they think china or Russia going to invade or do they think zombies gonna come or aliens gonna attack from space???!!

  14. When are the nutters going to learn their lessons – when will the NRA shut their mouths – when one/many of their families are killed by someone carrying a gun/rifle?? Australians have stood in solidarity with gun bans here due to the Port Arthur massacre in my home state of Tasmania – so please could someone advise where the school shootings are happening in Australia?? Await the answers from the US with great anticipation. Thank you

  15. Enough is enough no more news about mass shootings….take some actions American people…..you are one of the most powerful country…but Shame on you , you buy guns but cannot even protect the innocent Children , cannot even give them an environment where children can walk freely and only think about knowledge and dreams…..enough is enough…my heart is aching while seeing the faces of the victims just 10 years old oh god they had dreams and now they will never wake up to make them true.

  16. I am hearing a lot about laws don't matter, they say nothing would change if the laws were not changed, I say if the age was raised to 21 or 25 before a gun can be bought would make a huge difference. Why????? Because at the age of 18 dangerous people have had a few run-ins with the law but no real record, by the age of 21 or 25 there is a far better chance to prove that they are responsible adult or dangerous adults. By the age of 21 or 25 if they have mental illness or violence's they usually are in a mental hospital, jail, or prison with no possibility of owning a gun. There also needs to be classes, tests and real licenses of substance rather than a background check only. We have to pass classes, take training, and pass government tests to drive a car. The least we can do is have at least that many rules to owning a deadly weapon.

  17. Only in America do kids get murdered with such regularity and repugs do nothing

  18. It ought now to be mandatory for all public schools in the USA to be refurbished with a single entrance-way that can only be entered by passing through a metal detector manned by a police officer, standing behind a bullet-proof glass window.

  19. Senator Chris Murphy, well spoken and definitely one of the country's GREATEST politicians!

    #SenatorChrisMurphy

    #govgregabbott is too damn STUPID to use basic adult common sense and realize that the real problem is the horrible, almost nonexistent gun laws that exist in Texas. #BLAMEabbott's dumb ass! 🀬 It should NOT be possible for someone to buy and possess assault rifles at ANY age! They are weapons intended for soldiers, men and women serving in a branch of our country's military armed forces or actual police officers!

    #SCREWthenra and every American STUPID enough to think that they should have the right to own weapons which were originally intended for actual enlisted servicemen and women in one of the branches of our military!

    #BANassaultrifles and #BANar15s for use among normal civilians! 😀

    #Fuckthenra #SCREWgregabbott

    #abbottfailedtexasAGAIN! #abbottfailedtexas! #abbottsucks! #abbottdoesntcareaboutyou! #abbottdoesntcareaboutgunlaws! #fuckabbott

  20. Nothing will get done. Sad but that's the reality. US government to inept to act.

  21. Start holding parents/legal guardians accountable for mass shootings by children.

  22. 288 school shootings. It is only here in America where we have more guns than people. The right to bear arms specifically says WELL REGULATED. Also written by a feather pen. They didn't even have automatic pens. GET A GRIP GUN ENTHUSIASTS! MASS MURDER HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH 2A!!

  23. Always some politician trying to make a name for themselves pushing anti gun agendas when it's really a bad parents problem.

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  25. We can only grieve every time mass shooting in America while politicians do nothing. The grand mother was kill n law should the alert. Before gun man reach elementary school. It’s heartbreaking feeling helpless seeing this in every community. We can pray but man ultimately need to take action. Doing something is better than doing nothing. Beto was right we all been warned yet we did nothing. Instead we gave more power to gun lobby less restriction.

  26. The grandstanding and attacks on the 2nd Amendment are now escaIating with every kind of "high profiIe" person stepping up to the microphone and bIaming GUNS when it is a MENTAL HEALTH ISSUE. That incIudes Joe BIDEN going off on GOD no Iess, a few hours earIier. Joe BIDEN's nearIy 50 years on the PubIic, American Taxpayer's doIe in CONGRESS and HE did NOTHING to fix the very broken AMERICAN MENTAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM which is and can be PRO-Active in adverting such horrendous tragedies. EarIy intervention has proven effective in the frontIine of MENTAL HEALTHCARE for vuInerabIe individuaIs.

    Joe BIDEN and his cronies, didn't care about schooI funding in America to update security systems. SchooIs are supposed to have INSTALLED speciaIized office Iobbies to deter shooters, certain devices on each cIassroom door, staff trainings, visitor poIicies in the schooI to screen anyone entering the buiIdings, perimeter doors secured, and have active shooter protocoIs in pIace. For nearIy 50 years, JOE BIDEN and his cronies did NOT make schooI security a priority, but there was aIways money for wars. It's poIiticaI and personaI, most of us teachers who were wiIIing to carry and serve if necessary at schooI, were castigated and treated Iike we were maniacs instead of being wiIIing to have that extra duty. Yet they don't want to pay for a guard at an eIementary schooI site in the SAME vioIent neighborhoods as the middIe schooI and high schooI.

    As a veteran teacher of nearIy three decades of working with youth in grades K through 12, incIuding CorrectionaI Ed and JuveniIe HaII, my heart absoIuteIy is broken over this event, having Iost a chiId, I know there is virtuaIIy nothing that couId be said to remove the terribIe pain these famiIy members are feeIing & suffering through right now. This cuts deep into one's souI…the Ioss is more than one can bear. May the Lord and the many Ioving prayers bring comfort and heaIing to aII who grieve and mourn. God BIess

  27. Harambe was also a victim of senseless gun violence. Dicks out for Harambe

  28. Libtards trying to politicize every disaster to push their evil demented agenda of gun control

  29. Why do government buildings in DC
    get better security than kids at
    school? We protect elected officials
    with guns but not kids. We protect
    banks with guns but not kids. Our kids
    are more valuable than banks or
    politicians. Why does our country
    refuse to protect them with guns?!?

  30. All guns should be exclusively for 21 and up. 18 is bullshit

  31. I reached my limit. Everywhere they call pro gun people those what cause situation like this to happen.

    So from today I announce that all of people who are anti-gun are responsible for 100 000 unarmed civilians being killed by military in Balkans
    And hundreds of unarmed civilians killed in Birma
    And thousands of unnarmed civilians massacred by special forces in Venezuela.

    You ANTI GUN PEOPLE HAVE BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS.

    You are PRO this massacres because you want ONLY STATE TROOPS to be armed and civilians to be unarmed. ITS YOUR FAULT!

    PS. I am not American, US people – please know not entire country is pro Stalinist/totalitarian world and we support your 2A and actually want it in our country.

    In the US massacres never happen in companies that employees are encourage to CCW at work!

    Massacre in church was prevented by gun owners.

    But commie stalinists want to cherry pick facts.

  32. Banning assault rifles will give everyone a false sense of security. The problem is evil people. We have to share this earth with evil, that will never change. Go ahead, get rid of guns. It won't save any kids nor anyone else.

  33. Robb Elementary … They kicked Jesus out of the schools and satan walked right in… They need to do a autopsy with drug and alcohol Checks… As he did crash the truck.. But let's make one thing clear, This school is closer to the US /Mexican border then San Antonio Texas.. And all this noise about gun control, is trying to divert your attention from the crisis at the Mexican border and how they are allowing people to flood into our country with drugs and human trafficking., and Gangs.. Refugees who need to pay off these drug cartels for for allowing them to come into America to Chase their dreams.. Now the cartel are using these people to pay off their debts…. But , anyone in the right mind would not take guns to an elementary school and shoot up a bunch of children 10 and under…. With our borders unprotected, our Texas neighbors need guns to protect their own family and their own homes, or we just hand everything over to the drug cartels and the thugs… This being election year they are looking for anything, On one hand American women should have the right to kill babies, But on the other hand it's a travesty… When guns shoot people, Guns have no control over the person that they are in the hand of… Whether they are criminal intent or mentally Obscured through drugs in alcohol. Or perhaps is gang violence…. This failed administration, Will use anything… They are pulling straws out of their butt now trying to Sustained power because of green wealth, This truly is the land of Satan.. And the Demon-cratic Party. But no this little Saigon in Detroit, It is infested with drug dealers and gun runners… You don't get rid of the problem by taking away the honest person's gun…

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  35. If you want to stop gun violence stop brainwashing people with your MK ultra bullshit , social media is a MK ultra tool please don't be foo people, the government did this all of a sudden this kid has full body armor sounds to me like he they were training him

  36. Hope these disgusting power-hungry Republicans grow up and do their damn job and if they don't, DON"T VOTE FOR THEM!! THEY DON"T CARE ABOUT WE THE PEOPLE!! HOW MANY MORE CHILDREN NEED TO DIE!!???!!

  37. I just hope that the next James T. Hodgkinson is as effective, because the only way to change Republican minds is to use the one language they seem to understand.

  38. we are an evil society.