“I’m more confident than ever that we’re going to get there, but I’m also more anxious about failure this time around,” said Sen. Chris Murphy of bipartisan gun reform.
“ I think Republicans realize how scared parents and kids are across this country. I think they realize that the answer this time cannot be nothing, that it’s frankly a test of democracy, it’s a test of the federal government as to whether we can deliver at a moment of just fierce anxiety amongst the American public.”
Murphy — who served as representative of the district in which 20 elementary school students were shot and killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting before entering the Senate in 2013 — has been outspoken about the need for gun reforms in the years since. And speaking to Jake Tapper on CNN Sunday morning, said, “I’m more confident than ever that we’re going to get there, but I’m also more anxious about failure this time around.
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