Sen. Murphy after 14 students die in Texas school shooting: 'What are we doing?'
Speaking on the Senate floor after learning a shooter killed 14 students and one teacher at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., asked his colleagues what actions they’re taking to prevent school shootings, saying, “What are we doing? Why are you here?”
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CHRIS MURPHY: Mr. President, there are 14 kids dead in an elementary school in Texas right now. What are we doing? 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 more mass shootings than days in the year. Our kids are living in fear every single time they set foot in a classroom because they 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 a position of authority if your answer is that, as this slaughter increases, as our kids run for their lives, we do nothing? What are we doing?
Why are you here if not to solve a 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 do 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 a bathroom and told to be quiet for five minutes just in case a bad man entered that building. Nowhere else does that happen except here in the United States of America. And it is a choice. It is our choice to let it continue. What are we doing?
