Sen. Murphy (D-Conn.) on Gun Control: ‘Change Is Going To Happen’

HARLOW: “Thank you for being with me, Senator.” 
MURPHY (via phone): “Thanks for having me.” 
HARLOW: “Is the ‘Daily News’ cover right? Will this outrage quickly die down or will change happen?” 
MURPHY (via phone): “I think change is going to happen. I just don’t think that democracy can work when you have 90 percent of the American public that want changes in our gun laws like universal background checks and Congress not responding. It may take a series of elections before we get there, but I think there’s clear momentum towards a comprehensive look at how we reduce violence. And the fact of the matter is that it has to be comprehensive. You can’t just change our gun laws. Yes, we should have these dangerous weapons off the street, criminals shouldn’t get guns. But we also have a broken mental health system and that deserves fixing as well and we shouldn’t wait to do all of it at one time. If we can’t get the gun laws change because of the NRA control of Congress right now then let’s fix the mental health system. We should be starting this process now because it’s an absolute stain on this nation that there have been more mass shootings this year than there have been days in the year. We shouldn’t accept that in Congress.”