Sen. Chris Murphy: 'Jaw Dropping' Uvalde Surveillance Video Disproves 'Good Guys With Guns' Myth

Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) joins Andrea Mitchell with his reaction to leaked surveillance footage showing law enforcement’s delay in confronting the 18 year-old gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. “It's hard to watch but it is proof that this myth perpetuated in the country for 30 years, that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is good guys with a gun, was a gun industry fiction created to sell more weapons,” says Murphy. “If one teenager with a high powered weapon is so scary as to prevent all of those highly trained adults from going in and saving lives, maybe we should try to stop those teenagers from having those kinds of guns in the first place, because clearly, we can never have enough good guys with guns.”

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Sen. Chris Murphy: 'Jaw Dropping' Uvalde Surveillance Video Disproves 'Good Guys With Guns' Myth

[trower]

The mother of two boys who got out of handcuffs, jumped a fence, went into that school twice, saved her sons had much, much more courage than those confused, afraid cops with guns, body armour and phones. The parents should have all been allowed to rescue their own children. At least they would have tried!

[dhFLOOPY]

I hope those parents sue that police department into oblivion.

[bionicleanime]

It's ungodly how ineffective they were both outside and INSIDE the school. The families have every right to be infuriated at this lack of professionalism.

[sdb]

So it turns out the “good guys with a gun” are the real snowflakes.

[BP-iexf]

Someone leaked the video because they feared it would never come out

[emsleywyatt]

Having good guys with guns is useless unless they're also good guys with guts.

[wesleycolvin]

What are the parameters for 'negligent homicide' or 'depraved indifference'? Honestly, this feels like at LEAST one of those if not both.

[jldlott]

In The Andy Griffith Show, Deputy Barney Fife showed more courage when he would load his gun with his single bullet.

[anthonymonk]

These clowns ended the myth of tough Texan men by their cowardly actions.

[GJ]

To all who are posting inflation stuff under a mass shooting of school kids:
There is a world wide inflation.
And as a german, I never understood the gun cult in the states. Keep discussing one way in, one way out. My heart breaks for the loss of life. Face the real problem

[janiskinnie]

Brilliant comments, Chris Murphy, about the cowards with guns that would not try to stop a crazy little man.👍

[ERROL]

I’m from the UK and was on holiday with my girlfriend in Montpellier a few days ago and we bumped into a guy from Florida on the way to the beach. We got around to talking about guns and he said he felt really safe in France and not safe in America. I told him that would have more chance of being hit by a car falling from a tree than being shot in Europe. Sad but true.

[shizze]

These were not good guys with guns. They were cowards with guns. On both sides.

[jockyoung]

I suppose people who sign up to be cops in a small town like Uvalde don't really expect to ever have to deal with anythign very dangerous. They forgot that it was still their job.

[punapeter]

A COWARD with a gun is still a coward. All those Keystone Kops are COWARDS and need to be fired and sued for liability, child neglect.

[townsendjean]

Putin’s ongoing criminal arrogance and reckless mindless cruelty is outrageous! There’s got to be a seat reserved for this evil man at the Hague to face war crimes.

[ACA]

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

[Frenchblue]

We here in Connecticut are so incredibly fortunate to have Chris Murphy fighting for us and for the end to gun violence in this country. All Americans, not just Connecticuters are so very lucky to have Chris

[junheceta]

The video proves that "good guys with guns" IS A MYTH.

[williamgatheist]

UVALDE! VERY VERY VERY VERY HARD TO WATCH! WHOLEY "F" EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM IN THAT HALLWAY NEEDS TO BE FIRED