Bill Clinton: “Well, first, we are doing that. I mean, this plan of mine--you heard the young people commenting about debating whether…”

“Well, first, we are doing that. I mean, this plan of mine--you heard the young people commenting about debating whether 100,000 more police officers will make a difference. It will make a difference. It will not only catch more criminals, it will prevent more crime. We know that when you have police walking the streets, knowing the families, knowing the kids in the neighborhood, making their presence felt, the crime rate goes down. We also know you catch more criminals more quickly. The crime bill actually puts more people in prison. So there are a lot of issues being dealt with there. But keep in mind the restrictions that are put on gun ownership in terms of having to have background checks and waiting periods to catch people with criminal records. One hundred percent of the criminals in this country do not buy their guns off street corners. A lot of them buy them through gun stores, and we're going to catch those now. So it's worth doing. It's worth a little bit of sacrifice on the part of law- abiding gun owners to do that. Anticrime Legislation [Following a commercial break, a participant asked to whom the ``three strikes and you're out'' proposal would apply and how many people it would affect.]”