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Connecticut Dems: Blame Congress for latest school shooting

By Pete Kasperowicz
Published May 18, 2018 6:31pm ET
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Connecticut Dems: Blame Congress for latest school shooting
FILE - In this June 16, 2016 file photo, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., left, accompanied by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Democrats get their long-sought votes on gun control a week after the massacre in Orlando, Florida, but the prospects for any election-year changes in the nation’s laws are dim. The four votes on Monday, June 20, 2016, are the result of a deal after Murphy filibustered for almost 15 hours in response to the Orlando shooting. | (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

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.

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