Sen. Murphy: Obama Gun Push ‘Will Lead to Less Slaughter in the Streets of America’

MITCHELL: “Senator, for you and certainly for the Newtown families and others who have been struck by gun tragedies in the last few years, how frustrating is it that Joe Biden and Barack Obama have not been able to accomplish any of their goals in controlling guns?”
MURPHY: “Yeah, it’s mortifying for families in Connecticut, especially in and around Sandy Hook — we just passed the three-year anniversary and I don’t think there’s anyone in that town who, if you told them on the day of the murder of those 20 kids that three years later, Congress would have done nothing to try to end this slaughter, they wouldn’t have believed it. And so, I think the president has tried over and over again to work with Congress to get something done. He has the ability to simply clarify an existing law to make sure that more sales go through background checks. And of course, he’s lining up with where 80 to 90 percent of the American people are. I mean, everybody agrees that you should just at the very least prove that you are not a criminal before you buy a gun. And listen, background checks wouldn’t have saved the lives of those kids in Sandy Hook, but those families are dedicated to trying to save other lives [and this] executive action if he goes through with — it will lead to less slaughter out in the streets of America.”