Senator powerfully indicts colleagues for gun control cowardice: “We are essentially sending...

[DonViejo]

Senator powerfully indicts colleagues for gun control cowardice: “We are essentially sending a message of quiet endorsement of these murders”

Conn. Sen. Chris Murphy says Congress' inaction "has become complicity"

SOPHIA TESFAYE

Sen. Chris Murphy is completely fed up with his congressional colleagues’ failure to act on gun safety reforms, and after yet another high-profile mass shooting this week, he’s blasting his fellow elected leaders for “sending a message of quiet endorsement of these murders.”

On CNN’s “Newsroom with Carol Costello,” the Connecticut Democrat said he thinks “it’s an absolute stain on this nation that there are have been more mass shootings this year than there have been days in the year. We shouldn’t accept that in Congress.”

The Washington Post reported this week that America is averaging more than one mass shooting per day in 2015.

Since the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, in Newtown, Connecticut, Murphy has become a fierce advocate for expanded gun control and in the wake of this week’s execution of two journalists live on-air, the senator is making his disgust with his colleagues’ inaction perfectly clear, telling CNN he believes Congress’ failure to act after Sandy Hook inspires further violence:

This whole culture of mass violence in which Congress does nothing, I think sends a message to a lot of these individuals who are becoming unhinged in their mind that it’s OK to go out and commit these murders because no one seems to be doing anything to stop it, and so why should I think any differently than everybody else that I see on the news carrying out this kind of violence.

more
http://www.salon.com/2015/08/28/senator_powerfully_indicts_colleagues_for_gun_control_cowardice_we_are_essentially_sending_a_message_of_quiet_endorsement_of_these_murders/

[gratuitous]

1. Would that it were "quiet" endorsement

No, the endorsement of these murders is screamingly loud, increasingly paranoid, and sure to lead to even more carnage in our streets.

[etherealtruth]

2. + infinity

[mindwalker_i]

3. Getting money from the NRA is more important

[moondust]

4. K/R

[CTyankee]

5. I love my senators. Chris and Dick Blumenthal are the BEST...

[Nuclear Unicorn]

6. So not reinstating Prohibition is essentially endorsing DUIs?

[beevul]

7. Thats the logic on display, yes indeed. N/t