HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, who got here to Congress representing Sandy Hook, begged his colleagues to lastly go laws that addresses the nation’s persevering with gun violence downside because the nation’s newest faculty taking pictures unfolded Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas.

A gutted Murphy took to the ground and demanded that lawmakers do what they didn’t do after 26 college students and educators had been killed in Newtown, the world he represented as a congressman.

The Democrat gave an impassioned speech, urging his colleagues to lastly discover a compromise.

“Our coronary heart is breaking for these households. Each ounce of affection and ideas and prayers we will ship, we’re sending,” mentioned Murphy, who represented Newtown, Conn. the place Sandy Hook Elementary College is situated, as a former U.S. Consultant.

“However I am right here on this ground to beg to actually get down on my arms and knees and beg my colleagues. Discover a path ahead right here. Work with us to discover a technique to go legal guidelines that make this much less possible,” he mentioned.

The tragedy in Texas seemed to be just like the 2012 mass taking pictures in Connecticut, the place 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot his method into the locked constructing after which killed 20 first graders and 6 educators with an AR-15-type rifle legally bought by his mom. He then killed himself as police arrived. Earlier than going to the varsity, Lanza fatally shot his mom at their Newtown residence.

A report by the Connecticut’s youngster advocate mentioned Lanza’s extreme and deteriorating psychological well being issues, his preoccupation with violence and entry to his mom’s weapons “proved a recipe for mass homicide.”

Advocacy teams that fashioned within the wake of the Connecticut taking pictures expressed dismay on the information of taking pictures the Robb Elementary College, the place a minimum of 18 youngsters and one educator had been killed.

“We’re devastated by yet one more coronary heart wrenching faculty taking pictures incident in America – this time in Uvalde, Texas, almost 10 years after the Sandy Hook Elementary College taking pictures tragedy,” mentioned Po Murray, chair of the Newtown Motion Alliance, in a written assertion. “For the previous decade, now we have warned all Individuals, together with elected politicians throughout the nation, that if a mass taking pictures can occur in Sandy Hook then it will possibly occur wherever. We have now begged presidents, all members of Congress, governors and state representatives to strengthen the federal and state gun legal guidelines to maintain our households and our communities secure.”

Murphy expressed hope that compromise on gun management measures is feasible.

“I perceive my Republican colleagues won’t conform to every little thing that I’ll help, however there’s a frequent denominator that we will discover,” he mentioned, acknowledging the issue of gun violence cannot be solved in a single day. “However by doing one thing, we a minimum of cease sending this quiet message of endorsement to These killers brains are breaking, who see the very best ranges of presidency doing nothing, taking pictures after taking pictures.”

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Mascaro reported from Washington.