From Daily Mail:
The Connecticut politician sat down with CNN’s Dana Bash Sunday morning to discuss the Saturday night shooting that left two students dead and nine injured on the Rhode Island campus.
An unidentified male person of interest was taken into custody around 3am Sunday at the Hampton Inn in Coventry.
As updates on the fatal mass shooting continue to come in, Murphy and Bash discussed gun laws, with the journalist noting that Rhode Island ‘has some pretty strict gun laws.’
Murphy said stronger laws would decrease gun violence rates, them full on blamed the president for the “increase of violence” in the US.
Murphy said, “Gun violence rates and mass shooting rates have come down in this country, but this is not shocking because over the last year President Trump has been engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country.
“He is restoring gun rights to felons and people who have lost their ability to buy guns, he eliminated the White House office of gun violence protection and he stopped funding mental health grants and community anti-gun violence grants that Republicans and Democrats supported in that 2002 bill.”
“So he has been engaged in a pretty deliberate campaign to try to make violence more likely in this country and I think you’re unfortunately going to see the results of that on the streets of America,” Murphy shockingly added.
Bash answered, “That’s a pretty big statement – he’s in a campaign to make violence more likely?”
“Of course!” The liberal senator answered.
Read more at Daily Mail
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