“I’ve seen enough talks fall apart in the past to not be overly optimistic, but this is definitely different,” shares Senator Chris Murphy on gun reform laws.
on the Senate floor minutes after learning the news was the same one he initially asked himself: “What are wehere? What’s the purpose of the United States Senate, if not to respond to a tragedy like that?”
“I have had to talk to them about the fear kids have about being shot,” Murphy says. Still, he admits, “I didn’t tell my kids about Sandy Hook for a very, very long time.” Instead of discouraging Murphy, it drove him. Minutes after the bill failed, Murphy walked out of the Senate chamber to console a group of Sandy Hook parents. Mark Barden, the father of seven-year-old Daniel Barden and cofounder and CEO of Sandy Hook Promise, made a pledge to Murphy. “Chris, just understand, I’m not an activist for four months. I’m an activist for 40 years. I’m in this forever,” Murphy recalls Barden saying.
A group of sixth, seventh, and eighth graders are there too, standing in a horizontal line with mushroom haircuts and headscarves and smiling eyes over their masks. They look terribly young to be privy to the adults’ references to high-capacity magazines and gun-involved suicides, but in the absence of governmental protections, they have been enlisted to fight for their own safety. According to Barden, Say Something has helped prevent nine school shootings and hundreds of suicides.
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