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MATTHEWS: “What do you think of your colleagues and others in the media, for example, who, when they hear about these situations they watch what we’re watching right now, 17 killed by beak an amateur with a semi-automatic weapon with multiple magazines. Am mew mission magazines doing because he’sup set, whatever, emotionally disturbed. Then they say our prayers and thoughts are with the families having done nothing.”
BLUMENTHAL: “Prayers and thoughts are appropriate. Ours go out to the community in Florida, Parkland that has suffered this incredibly tragic horror. But prayers and thoughts are not enough. We need action. And my colleagues who will blame it all on the mental illness involved, I think are shirking that responsibility. And the Second Amendment, I'm a law enforcer, I believe in the Constitution, but no right is absolute and common sense measures consistent with the Second Amendment are absolutely acceptable under our laws and I think these excuses for failing to move forward are really reprehensible. It makes Congress complici in these deaths.”