REUTERS/Gary Cameron
Sens. Chris Murphy, right, and Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) at a gun-violence event.
On Thursday, the senator sent out a seemingly endless series of tweets detailing "every injury and every death in every mass shooting this year."
"Seeing all these shootings together you can't help but wonder, how is it possible that we can see this carnage and continue to do nothing?" he wrote.
Murphy has been one of the most outspoken proponents for gun-control legislation since 2012 following the infamous shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, which left 27 people dead including 20 children.
As the New York Times noted, Murphy dedicated one of his first speeches on the Senate floor to the gun violence, telling the story of one of the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting. Murphy has also criticized his congressional peers for saying that their "thoughts and prayers" are with victims of mass shootings, while refusing to pass significant gun control legislation.
Murphy wrote that he was using the Gun Violence Archive to document the mass shootings. The website defines a mass shooting as four or more people shot in a single incident at the same general time, not including the shooter.
Here are some of Murphy's tweets:
Here's my 2015 year in review.
- Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 31, 20152015 started in the early hours of January 1st when 5 people were shot on a New Year's Eve party bus in Memphis.
- Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 31, 2015The next day, another mass shooting (defined as at least 4 people shot, including the shooter) in Savannah Georgia.
- Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 31, 2015Two days later, 2 dead, 1 injured in Dallas, and 2 dead, 4 injured in Roanoke, VA.
- Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 31, 20152 days later, 1 dead, 3 injured in Miami. Next day, 1 dead, 3 injured in Chattanooga.
- Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 31, 2015Next day, 1 dead, 3 injured in Boston. Day after, 4 dead in San Fran.
- Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 31, 2015Day following, 3 dead, 1 injured in Moscow, Idaho. 4 shot in Wichita.
- Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 31, 2015On January 11, 5 shot in San Jose, 7 shot in Hope Mills, NC, 5 shot in Tuskegee.
- Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 31, 2015Two days later, 5 injured in Portsmouth, VA. Next day, 4 shot in Rockford, IL.
- Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 31, 20155 day break, then 2 dead, 5 injured in San Antonio. Next day, 4 shot in Clarksville, TN.
- Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 31, 2015Three days later, 6 injured in Boston. Next day, 3 dead, 5 injured in Omaha, 4 dead in Queens.
- Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 31, 2015Two days later, 1 dead, 4 injured in Stockton, CA. Two days later, 4 shot in DeKalb, GA.
- Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 31, 2015Next day, 4 bodies discovered shot to death in Troup County, GA.
- Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 31, 2015And that's just January. First day of February, 5 injured in Syracuse, and 1 dead, 4 injured in Manhattan.
- Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 31, 2015All this data is compiled by https://t.co/KEvaS5kOvN and the redditors at @rGunsAreCool, which tracked 372 shootings & counting in 2015
- Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 31, 2015For my 2015 year in review I'm listing all of them - every injury and every death in every mass shooting this past year.
- Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 31, 2015On Feb. 4, 4 dead in King, NC. Next day, 3 dead, 3 injured in Warrensville Heights, OH. Next day, 4 shot in Tulsa.
- Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 31, 2015Next three days, 1 dead, 3 injured in Tulsa again, 5 dead, 2 injured in Douglasville, GA, 6 injured in Crockett County, TN.
- Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 31, 2015Following day, 3 dead, 1 injured in New Port Richey, FL. Six days later, 5 injured in Long Beach.
- Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 31, 2015Two days later, 1 dead, 3 injured in Little Rock. 5 days later, 5 shot in Habersham County, GA, 4 shot in Charleston, 4 dead in Killeen, TX
- Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 31, 2015Three days later, 3 dead in Houston, and on Feb. 27 Joseph Jesse Aldrich kills 8 in Tyrone, MO.
- Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 31, 2015On the last day of Feb, 1 dead, 3 injured in Tarboro, NC, 3 dead in Columbia, MO, and 4 shot in Baltimore.
- Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 31, 2015