The New York Times reports that since the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, more than 400 people have been shot in over 200 school shootings. This is Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy speaking on the Senate floor after the shooting on Wednesday.
Sen. Chris Murphy: “This epidemic of mass slaughter, this scourge of school shooting after school shooting, it only happens here, not because of coincidence, not because of bad luck, but as a consequence of our inaction. We are responsible for a level of mass atrocity that happens in this country with zero parallel anywhere else.”
After headlines, we’ll go to Florida for the latest on the shooting.