Connecticut’s two Democratic senators say Congress is to blame for the latest school shooting in Texas that claimed 10 lives Friday morning.
Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy have been consistent advocates of federal gun control legislation in the wake of the 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. That event resulted in the death of 20 kids aged six or seven years old, as well as six staff members.
The two senators have said that shooting and others like it have been met with no action from Congress, to the point where they said Congress can now be blamed for failing to rein in gun violence.
Blumenthal said in a tweet Congress is “complicit” for the 10 people killed Friday morning at a school shooting in southeast Texas.
More tragic bloodshed&heartbreak caused by cruel gun violence. Congress is complicit.
— Richard Blumenthal (@SenBlumenthal) May 18, 2018
Murphy similarly blamed the “horrifying inaction of Congress.”
Let’s call it like it is: the horrifying inaction of Congress, slaughter after slaughter, has become a green light to would-be shooters, who pervert silence into endorsement.
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) May 18, 2018
The Texas shooting led President Trump to call for action at “every level of government,” and to say he’s ready to do “everything in our power” to protect students. But Trump has focused on ideas like keeping guns away from mentally ill people, and has not taken up the call from Democrats to ban certain weapons and high-capacity magazines.
