Senator Responds to Trump’s N.R.A. Speech With Photos of Shooting Victims
As President Trump took the stage to champion the Second Amendment at a National Rifle Association
convention on Friday, a United States senator sought to counter his
message by unleashing a Twitter storm using the names, ages and pictures
of gun violence victims.
Senator Christopher S. Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, who has fought for increased gun control since the 2012 school massacre
in his home state, posted on Twitter on Friday morning to urge his
followers not to watch Mr. Trump’s speech and instead, “think about who
we are fighting for.”
Mr.
Murphy then posted 11 messages showing the faces of shooting victims,
many of whom were children, including four of the victims of the Sandy
Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn.
In
a statement on Friday to The New York Times, he said he had started the
tweet storm because he knew that “the substance” of the gun-control
debate would get “totally lost” amid coverage of the president’s speech
in Atlanta.
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