Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"I am very concerned, as my colleagues have said, about the effect on our defense industrial base."

"There is a tension between those constitutional rights."

"My strong belief is that we ought to do everything possible to enable more effective prosecutions under existing laws."

"And nobody has ever suggested that a criminal, a convicted felon or a fugitive or a drug addict or someone seriously mentally ill, dangerous to himself or others, or a domestic violence abuser has a f..."