Jay Dickey: “We have before us this gun control amendment. In the backdrop, let us imagine that there is a special interest lobbyist…”

“We have before us this gun control amendment. In the backdrop, let us imagine that there is a special interest lobbyist group that we will call the Right to Crime. This group is made up of criminals everywhere, past and present, and new members are being recruited every day even as we speak. Now, what does this Right to Crime organization have to sell? Well, they really have some momentum going for them. They have not had to work too hard to accomplish the following in 5 or 6 short years: First, assert and reinforce the impression that they are victims; second, completely submerge the absence of rights they gave to the victims at the time of the crime; third, lessen the consequences of their acts by making it hard to get conviction, give the criminal, the members of this lobbyist group an easy time in prison, gymnasiums, weight rooms, college scholarships, color TV's, Walkmans, access to the courts at will, and medical care, the very finest, on demand, and an early release from their sentence after their minor inconveniences, and also the freedom to do it again.”