On the recordMarch 22, 1996
The ban means wasting the time and limited resources of our police and courts. The police will spend their time disarming potential victims instead of going after youth gangs who are terrorizing our inner cities. This mentality of the ban would send the authorities after religious eccentrics down in Waco. Let us focus on the criminal. Let us not waste the time and resources of our police on disarming innocent people who just want to defend themselves but have never committed a crime. That is the mentality that burned those people out in Waco, and that is what my colleagues are fostering today.
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