Senator Chris Murphy urged the Congress to “get off its ass and do something” about the gun violence after a gunman opened fire in Las Vegas and killed at least 50 people, The Hill reports.
Murphy, who is very well known in the push for gun control legislation after the deadly mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in his state of Connecticut, stated that it was “positively infuriating” that the Congress had not managed to adopt laws that will stop gun violence.
“Nowhere but America do horrific large-scale mass shootings happen with this degree of regularity. Last night’s massacre may go down as the deadliest in our nation’s history, but already this year there have been more mass shootings than days in the year,” Murphy said in a statement.
“This must stop. It is positively infuriating that my colleagues in Congress are so afraid of the gun industry that they pretend there aren’t public policy responses to this epidemic. There are, and the thoughts and prayers of politicians are cruelly hollow if they are paired with continued legislative indifference.”
“It’s time for Congress to get off its ass and do something,” Murphy stated.
Murphy has been an advocate for legislation on gun control in the Senate. He held an hours-long filibuster on the Senate floor last June to protest the body’s inaction on gun control legislation. He also introduced a bill last June that would expand background checks for most gun sales in the wake of the deadly mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub, but the legislation failed to pass. At least 50 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded in the Las Vegas shooting early Monday. It is now the deadliest mass shooting in the history of the United States.
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