“If I end my public-service career and haven’t passed a significant federal firearms-reform bill, I’ll consider my time in public service a failure,”

[basquebromance]

Senator Chris Murphy is the one who said it

The Struggle to Overcome Mass-Shooting Cynicism

“If I end my public-service career and haven’t passed a significant federal firearms-reform bill, I’ll consider my time in public service a failure,” Senator Chris Murphy says.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[Otis Mayfield]

It wasn't Joe?


Awwww!

 

[pknopp]

So he spends his career trying to pass something the Supreme Court will just overturn?

 

[kyzr]

Another back-bencher leaves DC, meh.

 

[basquebromance]

Another back-bencher leaves DC, meh.

he is a future presidential candidate

 

[22lcidw]

Ahhhhhhh that 17th Amendment. The shills put into power by the elites and establishment. He can walk into every major city in New Jersey and they are verified slums with endless federal, state, regional, local and township taxes paying to keep the ghettos going. Massive tax state where old Chris and the prog boys and girls shit it down like a Russian gulag in the 1920's. One third of N.J. small business went out of business. But they do not care. Hilary told us that back in the early 2000's. Of course her diseased carcass is first in line from any private business and her needs of any type.

 

[Crepitus]

Senator Chris Murphy is the one who said it

The Struggle to Overcome Mass-Shooting Cynicism

“If I end my public-service career and haven’t passed a significant federal firearms-reform bill, I’ll consider my time in public service a failure,” Senator Chris Murphy says.

www.theatlantic.com

And he's correct.

Also doomed to failure.

 

[Darkwind]

I don't think I'm going to wait until he retires to declare his service a failure. Saves time that way.

 

[Rigby5]

Any and all federal firearm legislation is obviously illegal.
The federal government was only authorized to do what states can not do, like immigration, the post office, or interstate commerce.
States can easily regulate their own firearms, so any and all federal firearm legislation is clearly a violation of the constitution giving it all to more local forms of government.

The only way any federal legislation over firearms would be over manufacturing standards, since just like food, they are subject to interstate shipping after production, and it is much harder for states to regulate substandard production from out of state.

 

[whitehall]

The word "reform" is a political term used by clueless politicians when they want to fool the people into thinking that they actually have a plan. Indict Obama and Holder for gun running to Mexico if you are serious. Indict actor Alec Baldwin for negligent homicide.

 

[Indeependent]

he is a future presidential candidate

Who isn't?

 

[Resnic]

How about working on the real problem, criminals. Guns are just inanimate objects, stop catering to criminals and start prosecuting them and anlot of gun related crime will go away.

 

[foggedinn]

No one should have access to guns. Penalties for possession should be severe.

 

[basquebromance]

 

[basquebromance]

 

[iceberg]

FBI Stats Show Knives Kill Far More People Than Rifles In America – It’s Not Even Close

Recent shootings in Atlanta and Boulder are driving a renewed push to ban

dailycaller.com

 

[Harry Dresden]

he is a future presidential candidate

you think everyone is a potential candidate....

 

[Harry Dresden]

No one should have access to guns. Penalties for possession should be severe.

then change the constitution ....otherwise tough shit.....

 

[basquebromance]

excerpts from the article:

the footage offers a perspective we’ve seldom seen: an inside-the-classroom view of high-school students trying to evade an active shooter. Kids crouch below their desks and strategize in hushed tones. The lights are off. Fearing that the voice on the other side of the door is that of a killer, they flee. Then, as teenagers push open a window and thrust themselves to safety, the scene starts to look familiar.

The video from Oxford High School on Tuesday afternoon evoked the April 20, 1999, Columbine massacre with eerie symmetry. Twenty-two years ago, such events were deemed “unthinkable.” Columbine yielded wall-to-wall news coverage in a way that this week’s Michigan shooting, and many others over the past two decades, have not.

Back then, Senator Chris Murphy was a House Democrat, representing the state’s Fifth Congressional District. The Newtown parents were his constituents. One of the Sandy Hook moms, Jackie Barden, told Murphy that she used to pretend that her dead son, Daniel, was off playing at a friend’s house, and that he would soon come home. By telling herself this, Barden could momentarily find the mental strength to complete basic tasks like vacuuming her house. “It was just so terrifying to me that she needed to create this world in which Daniel was still alive in order to just get through a few hours,” Murphy told me yesterday.

On Tuesday, Murphy took to the Senate floor, attacking his colleagues’ inaction on gun control. Murphy’s speech racked up retweets and praise, the liberal equivalent of thoughts and prayers. His message was more or less in line with the one he’s been delivering for nearly a decade. Still, there was something different about his tone on Tuesday: rage.

“It happens here, in America, because we choose to let it happen,” Murphy said in his address. “We’re not unlucky; this is purposeful. This is a choice made by the United States Senate to sit on our hands and do nothing while kids die.” He paced behind the lectern, shaking his head in disgust, furrowing his brow, waving his right hand as if trying to swat the problem away in the ether. “Make no mistake about it: There is a silent message of endorsement sent to would-be killers, sent to individuals whose brains are spiraling out of control, when the highest levels of the U.S. government does nothing, shooting after shooting.”




Earlier that day, in advance of a Supreme Court case that may eventually overturn Roe v. Wade, some of Murphy’s Republican colleagues had spoken about the sanctity of human life. Later, after Murphy had left the Capitol for the night, he seethed over what he saw as GOP hypocrisy. Murphy figured the Michigan shooting might have been prevented had Republicans not spent years blocking gun reform at the federal level. So he turned around and drove back to the Senate to say as much.

“My anger [Tuesday] night was real—it was visceral,” Murphy told me. “It comes from a parent who’s sick and tired of having his kids go through active-shooter drills. But it also comes from a policy maker who doesn’t want his country to start to think that this is something we have to live with. This is in our control. We still have the ability to pass laws that change the trajectory of gun violence in this nation. Sometimes you need to show emotion to wake people out of their complacency.”

“I wonder if this country would accept school shootings the way we do if they saw pictures of what those kids looked like in Sandy Hook after their little bodies were riddled with holes,” Murphy said. “I don’t want to overstate the images that I’ve seen, but I’ve certainly seen images from Sandy Hook that others haven’t, and those images are motivating. No parent wants their dead child’s picture on the news. But, you know, it was Emmett Till’s open casket that changed the civil-rights movement. And maybe it’s that viral video from [Tuesday] that starts to make people think whether they really want their kid to experience something like that.”

Sometimes, even the experience of being shot is not enough to change a person’s mind about guns. I asked Murphy whether he’s spoken with people like his old House colleague Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the Republican minority whip who was wounded in the 2017 congressional-baseball shooting.

“What's discouraging about the baseball shooting is that it seemed to harden people’s beliefs, in part because there were good guys with guns,” Murphy said. “I think for Steve, it hardened his belief that we need to have more guns rather than less guns. I can’t put myself in his shoes, but that certainly is discouraging for those of us who look at the data and see that where more guns exist, more gun crimes exist.” (Four years after the failed attempt on his life, Scalise advertises his strong support of the Second Amendment, concealed-carry reciprocity, and an A+ rating from the NRA on his government website.)

“I contest the narrative that the only sentiment you can have is despair, because a lot of progress has been made,” he said. “I understand the focus is rightly on the lack of action federally. But, from Washington State to Florida to Connecticut to California to Nevada, in purple states and blue states, we’ve passed laws that are tightening up the nation’s gun laws. We’ve seen more anti-gun-violence laws passed in the last 10 years than in any 10-year period in my lifetime. That’s good news, but it’s not enough.”

 

[Moonglow]

School shootings are kewl and well within the rights of the American citizen.