Sen. Chris Murphy: 'The time is now for Congress to shed its cowardly cover and do something'

Chris Murphy (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters)

Like most U.S. lawmakers, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., reacted in horror to news of the deadly mass shooting at a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Sunday. Unlike most, Murphy focused his outrage on the stranglehold he believes the National Rifle Association holds on his fellow members of Congress.

“The paralysis you feel right now – the impotent helplessness that washes over you as news of another mass slaughter scrolls across the television screen – isn’t real,” Murphy said in a statement. “It’s a fiction created and methodically cultivated by the gun lobby, designed to assure that no laws are passed to make America safer, because those laws would cut into their profits.”

Sen. @ChrisMurphyCT: “The paralysis you feel right now … isn’t real. It’s a fiction created and methodically cultivated by the gun lobby.”

— Dylan Stableford (@stableford) November 5, 2017

By Dylan Stableford.

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