Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) mentioned the Brown University taking pictures was a results of President Donald Trump’s “dizzying marketing campaign to extend violence on this nation.”
Murphy mentioned, “If you have a look at states like Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, California which have stronger legal guidelines, we’ve gun violence charges, homicide charges, mass taking pictures charges which might be two to three to 4 occasions decrease than states which have free gun legal guidelines. And lots of the weapons which might be utilized in our states for gun crimes come to our states from these states which have a capability for criminals and folks with severe psychological sickness to purchase weapons. So what we all know is that stronger legal guidelines do work. Since we handed that invoice in 2022, the primary invoice in 30 years that strengthens the nation’s gun legal guidelines, gun violence charges and mass taking pictures charges have come down on this nation. But this isn’t stunning as a result of during the last 12 months, President Trump has been engaged in a dizzying marketing campaign to extend violence on this nation. He is restoring gun rights to felons and individuals who have misplaced their skill to purchase weapons. He eradicated the White House workplace of gun violence safety, and he has stopped funding psychological well being grants and group anti-gun violence grants that Republicans and Democrats supported in that 2022 invoice. So he has been engaged in a reasonably deliberate marketing campaign to attempt to make violence extra probably on this nation. I feel you’re sadly going to see the outcomes of that on the streets of America.”
Host Dana Bash mentioned, “That’s a fairly large assertion. He’s a marketing campaign to make violence extra probably.”
Murphy mentioned, “Of course. I imply, he’s knowingly restoring gun rights to harmful individuals. He is slicing off grants which have bipartisan assist to attempt to interrupt violence in our cities or to attempt to get mandatory psychological well being sources to households and youngsters in want. The proof tells you that once you cease funding psychological well being, once you cease funding group anti-gun violence packages, once you give gun rights again to harmful individuals, you’ll have a rise in violence that’s knowable and that’s foreseeable.”
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