Washington Examiner senior writer Joe Concha suggested Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) should be “censured” for implying that President Donald Trump is on a “campaign to increase violence.”
Murphy appeared on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday in the hours after a gunman opened fire on Brown University’s campus, killing two and injuring nine others. According to Murphy, this latest mass shooting event was “not shocking.”
“Over the last year, President Trump has been engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country,” Murphy said. “He is restoring gun rights to felons and people who have lost their ability to buy guns. He has stopped funding mental health grants and community anti-gun violence grants that Republicans and Democrats supported in that 2022 bill.”
“So he’s engaged in a deliberate campaign to make violence more likely in this country, and I think you’re unfortunately going to see the results on the streets of America,” Murphy added.
Concha accused Murphy of giving an analysis that was “not accurate.” Rhode Island typically ranks among the top states for strict firearm regulations according to gun-control advocacy groups. The state has universal background checks, red-flag laws, an assault weapons ban, and high-capacity magazine limits. Brown University is also a “gun-free zone.”
“Chris Murphy should be censured for making such a comment on national television,” Concha said on Fox Business’s Varney & Co on Monday.
“We don’t know who the shooter was or what his or her motivation was, and this clown runs to CNN to blame the sitting president? The same president who was nearly assassinated twice and blames him for inflammatory rhetoric?” Concha added. “I mean, this is 31 flavors of absolute delusion.”
FBI’S HANDLING OF BROWN UNIVERSITY SHOOTING INVESTIGATION RENEWS SCRUTINY OF KASH PATEL
While federal law enforcement officers initially detained one suspect for the shooting, that person has since been released as the investigation continues.
The Brown University student victims were Ella Cook, a 19-year-old sophomore from Birmingham, Alabama, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a freshman who graduated from Midlothian High School in Virginia in May.
