Patricia Schroeder: “America's communities are being terrorized by lunatics. Our law enforcement officers are the ones who are on the front…”

“America's communities are being terrorized by lunatics. Our law enforcement officers are the ones who are on the front line trying to bring back some tranquility to America's public places. Our law enforcement officers today look like Wyatt Earp. They really do not have any more technology than Wyatt Earp had except they have a car instead of a horse. We could fix that. We have all sorts of cold war technology taxpayers have paid for that should be opened up to law enforcement and move out there so we fight crime much smarter. If we could trace everything in the world, we ought to be able to trace explosives, and we know how to trace explosives. It is outrageous that this Congress might think about going home before we deal with this issue. One of the primary reasons for the Congress, according to the Constitution, is to deal with the domestic tranquility. Let us deal with that before we adjourn. Let us open up that wonderful storehouse of research and development that we have paid for for the cold war for this new war on terrorism.”