‘Don’t stay silent’: Democrats lash out as GOP blocks gun measure amid school shooting
News of the Santa Clarita, California, school shooting broke Thursday just as Connecticut’s two Democratic senators were making an emotional case for gun control on the Senate floor. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy have been especially forceful advocates against gun violence since the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in which 26 people were killed, including 20 children…