Senator Chris Murphy, a leading supporter of stricter gun laws, said hours after an August 27 deadly Minneapolis school shooting that legislation enacted during the Biden administration led to a decline in mass shootings.

“There is something deeply wrong with a country that chooses to make running for their lives part of kids’ back to school ritual,” Murphy wrote on X. “When we finally passed a gun safety bill in 2022, mass shooting began to drop. But it was an unacceptably small start. We must do more.”

Murphy referred to the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act that then-President Joe Biden signed into law in June 2022 after mass shootings in Buffalo, New York and a Uvalde, Texas elementary school. The legislation combined gun safety provisions with mental health and school security r

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