Murphy responds to NRA

by: ctblogger

Fri Dec 21, 2012 at 15:16:26 PM EST

Murphy Statement on NRA Press Announcement

NEWTOWN-U.S. Senator-elect Chris Murphy released the following statement in response to a press announcement made today by National Rifle Association president Wayne LaPierre:

Today's announcement from the NRA was the most revolting, tone-deaf statement I've ever heard. While Newtown continues the horrifying work of burying twenty children and six adults, the NRA has the gall to say that the solution to this problem is more, not fewer guns.

The NRA has now made itself completely irrelevant to the national conversation about preventing gun violence, by saying that the answer to the tragedy in Newtown is to put more deadly semi-automatic assault weapons on the streets and into our schools.