Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said Thursday that it took a tragedy like the massacre in Newtown, Conn., in order to move the United States toward enacting sensible gun laws to curb violence. “It made a difference,” Durbin said. “It was the tipping point in this national conversation.”
“What does it take? What does it take to move a nation? What does it take to move a congress?” Durbin said at a news conference introducing a new assault weapons ban in the House and Senate. “It took 20 children in Newtown, Conn., and six others showing extraordinary courage to risk [their] lives and try to save and protect those same children. It was the image of those children that each and every one of us looked at and said, that could be my son or daughter.”
