Ten years after Sandy Hook, Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut is pushing for new gun laws after a school massacre in Uvalde. Will this time be different?
If Murphy wanted to get something done this time, he knew he had to move quickly. “I know how this works,” he said. “I know that often the partners who show up on Day 1 are only interested so long as this is in the headlines.”The headlines were particularly gruesome this time — 19 fourth-graders dead, some maimed beyond recognition,— which meant an avalanche of grief for the nation and, possibly, an opening for Murphy and his allies.
Resistance to federal gun laws from Republicans — who tend to argue that gun control measures are ineffective and infringe on gun owners’ Second Amendment rights — has long been Murphy’s biggest obstacle, as he watched hundreds of frantic parents search for their children. Eventually, there were 40 parents left and no more survivors. Murphy stood outside as those parentstheir kids had been gunned down inside their first-grade classroom.
“Well, here is the simplest and perhaps most important truth,” he continues. “It’s just much easier to commit mass murder in America … It’s easier in general to get a gun here than anywhere else. And it’s much easier to get your hands on a gun that will kill many people very quickly.” In general, though, Washington has been a graveyard of gun-control bills. In April 2013, four months after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, a bipartisan bill led by Sens. Patrick J. Toomey and Joe Manchin III was defeated. In the years that followed, talks on gun reform bills — often led by Murphy — have repeatedly collapsed in the Senate.
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