It’s a grim exercise that Murphy has repeated after each mass shooting since he was elected to the Senate in 2012. “This country has the loosest set of gun laws to allow dangerous people to own dangerous weapons in the industrialized world. In April 2013, four months after Sandy Hook, the Senate voted down a package of gun control measures. In the days that followed this week’s attack on a country music festival in Las Vegas, Murphy held a press conference on Capitol Hill. Though many expressed doubt that banning such rapid-fire devices would be consistent with current law, Murphy saw reason to be optimistic.

Source: The Guardian October 08, 2017 06:00 UTC