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Blumenthal Calls For Background Checks On Senate Floor, As Calif. Shooting Unfolds

WSHU | By Davis Dunavin
Published November 14, 2019 at 2:18 PM EST
Students are escorted in a single file line as some parents pick them up outside of Saugus High School after reports of a shooting on Thursday in Santa Clarita, Calif.
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Students are escorted in a single file line as some parents pick them up outside of Saugus High School after reports of a shooting on Thursday in Santa Clarita, Calif.

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut was addressing gun violence on the Senate floor when news broke of a shooting at a high school in Santa Clarita, California.

An aide handed Blumenthal a note as he argued in favor of gun control legislation, according to video posted on Twitter by a CBS reporter.

“As I speak on the floor right now, there is a school shooting in Santa Clara, California. How can we turn the other way, how can we refuse to see that shooting in real time, demanding our attention, requiring our action?”

The city is actually Santa Clarita, California.

Blumenthal and fellow U.S. Senator from Connecticut Chris Murphy were arguing in favor of a universal background checks bill that passed the House earlier this year but stalled in the Senate.

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Davis Dunavin
Davis Dunavin loves telling stories, whether on the radio or around the campfire. He fell in love with sound-rich radio storytelling while working as an assistant reporter at KBIA public radio in Columbia, Missouri. Before coming back to radio, he worked in digital journalism as the editor of Newtown Patch. As a freelance reporter, his work for WSHU aired nationally on NPR. Davis is a proud graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism; he started in Missouri and ended up in Connecticut, which, he'd like to point out, is the same geographic trajectory taken by Mark Twain.
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