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Chris Murphy – Sen. Chris Murphy says mass shootings decreased as a result of a 2022 law. Is that true?

by The editor•28 August 2025•Posted inPolitics Matters

Following the passage of a 2022 gun safety law, mass shootings “began to drop.”

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