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On the recordApril 13, 2021
the most serious threat of physical harm to Americans does not come right now from a foreign army or from immigrants, as some would have us believe, but from the increasing tendency towards deadly violence from a small often heavily armed subset of our fellow Americans.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

Murphy emphasizes domestic violence as a greater threat than foreign terrorism or immigration.

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