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William C. Baker: well, we have just heard it, today we are celebrating that sad tragedy of a year ago, and while this House and the…

On the recordApril 19, 1996
well, we have just heard it, today we are celebrating that sad tragedy of a year ago, and while this House and the liberals talk about taking away private citizens' right to own a weapon, we do almost nothing to those heinous killers and criminals who violate society's rules. We have heard about Harold Baer until we are sick of it. Harold Baer decides that it is OK to run away from policemen. From kindergarten we are taught policemen are our friends and we, even if a red light is in front of them and they tell to you go through the light, do what the policeman says. They run away from the policeman and Harold Baer says that is a natural thing to do in that neighborhood so they should not have searched the poor, sorry individual who only had 80 pounds of cocaine in the trunk of their car. Then Rosemary Barkett, who we just heard about, and I am going to read her famous line because nobody could even believe this. She says this about a killer who killed someone and then sent a tape recording mocking the killing to the victim's mother. This is what she said about that inhuman human being: His impatience for change, for understanding, for reconciliation matured to taking the illogical and drastic action of murder. His frustration, his anger and his obsession of injustice overcame reason. The murder victim was a symbolic representation of the class which caused the perceived injustice. You talk about it is society's fault, what nonsense.…
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William C. Baker
California

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Discussing crime and judicial leniency in the context of gun rights and societal responsibility.

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