Senator gives impassioned speech on Senate floor after deadly shooting at Texas elementary school
Senator gives impassioned speech on Senate floor after deadly shooting at Texas elementary school
14 kids dead in an elementary school in texas right now. What are we doing? What are we doing? Just days after *** shooter walked into *** grocery store to gun down african american patrons, We have another sandy hook on our hands. What are we doing? There's been more mass shootings than days in the year. Our kids are living in fear every single time they set foot in the classroom because I think they're going to be next. What are we doing? Why do you spend all this time running for the United States Senate? Why do you go through all the hassle of getting this job of putting yourself in *** position of authority? If your answer is that as the slaughter increases as our kids run for their lives, we do nothing. What are we doing? Why are you here is not to solve *** problem? As existential as this. This isn't inevitable. These kids weren't unlucky. This only happens in this country. And nowhere else, nowhere else to little kids go to school thinking that they might be shot that day. Nowhere else do parents have to talk to their kids as I have had to do about why they got locked into *** bathroom and told to be quiet for five minutes just in case *** bad man entered that building, nowhere else does that happen except here in the United States of America. And it is *** choice. It is our choice to let it continue. What are we doing
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Senator gives impassioned speech on Senate floor after deadly shooting at Texas elementary school
A U.S. senator from Connecticut gave an impassioned speech on the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon after a deadly shooting at a Texas elementary school.At least 19 children and a teacher were killed in Uvalde, Texas, after an 18-year-old shooter went inside the school, according to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.Sen. Chris Murphy spoke for more than two minutes."What are we doing?" Murphy said. "What are we doing? Just days after a shooter walked into a grocery store to gun down African American patrons, we have another Sandy Hook on our hands. What are we doing?"There were 26 who died in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012, which included 20 children.Watch the video above to see Murphy's speech.
A U.S. senator from Connecticut gave an impassioned speech on the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon after a deadly shooting at a Texas elementary school.
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At least 19 children and a teacher were killed in Uvalde, Texas, after an 18-year-old shooter went inside the school, according to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
Sen. Chris Murphy spoke for more than two minutes.
"What are we doing?" Murphy said. "What are we doing? Just days after a shooter walked into a grocery store to gun down African American patrons, we have another Sandy Hook on our hands. What are we doing?"
There were 26 who died in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012, which included 20 children.
Watch the video above to see Murphy's speech.