Senator Chris Murphy believes that the tide is finally turning in favor of the gun safety movement in America.
Even as Murphy acknowledges that more work is needed to address gun violence, the prominent Connecticut Democrat maintains that a growing backlash to mass shootings has brought the country to the brink of a sea change – 10 years after the devastating Sandy Hook school shooting in his home state.
“We’ve built a movement in this country in the last 10 years that today, I would argue, is more powerful than the gun lobby,” Murphy said in an interview for a special episode of the Guardian’s Politics Weekly America podcast.
“I think we are now poised to rack up victory after victory for gun safety,” he said.
— Joan E. Greve in Senator Chris Murphy: ‘victory after victory’ is coming for US gun cont
