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Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut—home of the tragic Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting—knows a little something about GOP lawmakers’ endless calls for "thoughts and prayers" followed by their complete inaction to protect Americans from any given mad man deciding to open fire on defenseless people at any given hour of any given day. And he's damn sick and tired of it. NBC writes:
"This must stop," Murphy said. "It is positively infuriating that my colleagues in Congress are so afraid of the gun industry that they pretend there aren't public policy responses to this epidemic."
He added, "The thoughts and prayers of politicians are cruelly hollow if they are paired with continued legislative indifference. It's time for Congress to get off its ass and do something." [...]
Connecticut was the catalyst for the gun control debate after the Sandy Hook massacre, and the state’s other Democratic senator, Richard Blumenthal, said he was "furious" at Congress' inaction.
"It has been barely a year since what was previously the largest mass shooting in American history — the deadly attack at Pulse nightclub," Blumenthal said in a statement of the 2016 massacre in Orlando. "In the interim, thousands more have been lost to the daily, ruthless toll of gun violence. Still, Congress refuses to act. I am more than frustrated, I am furious."
The Connecticut Democrats, who perhaps feel the sting of hypocrisy most profoundly, were joined by other angry Democrats.