Chris Murphy: Absolutely I’m for Banning Both Semi-Auto Rifles and Bump-Stocks

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GEIST: "I understand your point of view, but it’s worth talking about what would have prevented the deaths of 59 people and the injuries of more than 500 in this incident. Again, he passed these backgrounds checks. So just to be specific, ban bump-stocks and ban semi-automatic rifles. Are you for those two things?"
MURPHY: "I’m for both of those two things. I think we ask ourselves a question every day in and around Newtown. It’s not just a question of the specific damage that these weapons do. They allow you to kill a lot more people, but in Newtown we ask ourselves whether Adam Lanza would have ever walked into that school if he didn't have tactical weaponry. There’s a false, bizarre kind of courage that comes with attaching yourself to these kind of very powerful weapons, and there is a question as to whether the shooters would ever take up position if all they had was a pistol instead of a dangerous military-style weapon."