Chris Murphy: To Say that Guns Are Making Us Safer Is ‘Mythology’ Proffered by the Gun Industry

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MURPHY: “And we are doing a lot more background checks now. The law said that anybody who's engaged in the commercial sale of weapons, even if you don’t have a bricks-and-mortar store, has to perform background checks. So there’s a lot fewer criminals who are getting their hands on guns, a lot fewer people in mental health crisis who are getting their hands on guns because we’re doing a lot more background checks. That’s all good news. Listen, it’s not universal background checks. It’s not a ban on assault weapons. But this mythology that the gun industry proffered for years, that the way that we make ourselves safer is by putting more guns into our community isn’t true. We have proved our theory that if you’re a little bit smarter about our gun laws, you can make a big difference. That’s good news."