HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut’s lawmakers said they were heartbroken Tuesday at the news of a deadly Texas elementary school shooting that is hauntingly familiar to the elementary school massacre that took 26 lives in Newtown 10 years ago.
“We have another Sandy Hook on our hands,” U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy said on the Senate floor Tuesday evening, making an emotional plea to his congressional colleagues — one he’s repeated for years — to pass stricter gun laws.
“What are we doing? Why are we here?” the senator asked his colleagues, over and over, mere hours after an 18-year-old gunman killed at least 19 people in Uvalde, Texas.
