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.”
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