"Turn on your television right now. You're going to see scenes of children running for their lives. What looks to be the nineteenth school shooting in this country, and we have not even hit March ... This happens nowhere else other than the United States of America. This epidemic of mass slaughter, this scourge of school shooting after school shooting, it only happens here not because of coincidence, not because of bad luck, but as a consequence of our inaction. We are responsible for a level of mass atrocity that happens in this country with zero parallel anywhere else."
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Senator Chris Murphy in a speech to the Senate. Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy on Florida Shooting: ‘We Are Responsible’, thedailybeast.com (February 14, 2018)
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