Senator Chris Murphy implores his colleagues to act after a mass shooter killed 18 children in Texas, dismissing a common Republican argument by saying, 'Spare me the bullshit about mental illness'
Senator Chris Murphy makes an impassioned appeal for concrete action to prevent mass shootings, saying,"we're high-income-world's deadliest nation and we have loosest gun laws."Democratic US Senator Chris Murphy has implored his colleagues to act to combat gun violence hours after a mass shooter killed 18 Texas school children, dismissing a common Republican argument by saying, "Spare me the bullshit about mental illness.
"There's just not a coincidence that we're the high-income-world's deadliest nation and we have the loosest gun laws. You know, guns flow in this country like water. And that's why we have mass shooting after mass shooting." "We don't have any more mental illness than any other country in the world. You cannot explain this through a prism of mental illness because we're not an outlier on mental illness. ... We're an outlier when it comes to access to firearms and the ability of criminals and very sick people to get their arms on firearms. That's what makes America different."
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