Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State

The easiest way to write a dumb law is to pass a bill uninformed by certifiable data. Following the massacre of school students at Sandy Hook Elementary school, U .S. Senator Chris Murphy , newly sworn into the Congress, issued his first media release of the New Year in the course of which he vowed to fight “ to strengthen Connecticut’s economy” and “grow jobs in science, technology, manufacturing, and defense.” And with a nod in the direction of bloodstained Newtown, the junior U.S. Senator from Connecticut pledged “to be a leading voice in the national conversation to end the kind of gun violence that shattered precious young lives and devastated a community in Newtown, Connecticut just three weeks ago.”