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"You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear."
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Chris MurphyWhat are we doing? Why are you here? If not to solve a problem as exis — Chris Murphy
"What are we doing? Why are you here? If not to solve a problem as existential as this? This isnt inevitable. These kids werent unlucky. This only happens in this country. Nowhere else do kids go to school and think they might be shot that day. Its a choice and its our choice to let it continue. Im here to beg my colleagues. Find a way to pass laws to make this less likely."
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Christopher Scott Murphy is an American lawyer, author, and politician serving since 2013 as the junior United States senator from Connecticut. A member of the Democratic Party, he served from 2007 to 2013 in the United States House of Representatives, representing Connecticut's 5th congressional district.
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"They have fundamentally different problems than other people."
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"Ive listened to Republicans say over and over again that we should focus on enforcing the laws that we have. The great hypocrisy of that statement is that they are deliberately handcuffing the enforcement agency that oversees current law."
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"Your thoughts should be about steps to take to stop this carnage. Your prayers should be for forgiveness if you do nothing -- again."
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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."
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"You have entire communities whose biologies are being changed by gun violence."
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