Chris Murphy: Violence

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“There is not something fundamentally different about the American DNA that causes us to have a level of gun violence that is 20 times that of other first-world nations…. It happens here because we choose to allow it to happen. We have a celebratory culture of guns, and the loosest firearms laws in the world.”

Chris Murphy

"Meet the Senator Who Filibustered for 15 Hours on Gun Control" http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/meet-the-senator-who-filibustered-for-15-hours-on-gun-control-20160620, RollingStone.com, 20 June 2016.

World , Law , Time

“I wanted to show some of the faces of Washington’s inaction — to share a small sliver of the lives we’ve lost because our nation is overflowing with guns. This issue is only controversial in the halls of Congress. Outside Washington, people understand the horror of gun violence and are increasingly unwilling to tolerate a Congress that is owned and operated by the gun lobby.”

Chris Murphy

"Senator Responds to Trump’s N.R.A. Speech With Photos of Shooting Victims" https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/us/politics/christopher-murphy-guns-trump.html?_r=0, 17 Apr 2017

People , Understanding

“We have a moral obligation to act and not accept that this [gun violence] is inevitable.”

Chris Murphy

"Meet the Senator Who Filibustered for 15 Hours on Gun Control" http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/meet-the-senator-who-filibustered-for-15-hours-on-gun-control-20160620, RollingStone.com, 20 June 2016.

“You have entire communities whose biologies are being changed by gun violence.”

Chris Murphy

"Full transcript: POLITICO's Glenn Thrush interviews Chris Murphy" http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/full-transcript-glenn-thrush-chris-murphy, Politico, 8 August 2016.

Communication , Change