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C.L. Otter: “We would not entertain in this body for 5 seconds the idea of suspending any other constitutionally protected right in…”

On the recordJuly 18, 2001
We would not entertain in this body for 5 seconds the idea of suspending any other constitutionally protected right in this country. Yet we seem to advise ourselves constantly that the second amendment does not deserve the same protection from this body as freedom of speech or freedom of assembly or freedom to practice whatever religion we would. Why do we not take and spend some time, spend our limited talents, our limited resources and our constitutional mandate to protect the peaceful citizens of this country and to punish the bad ones instead of the other way around?
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C.L. Otter
Republican · Idaho

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Addressing the protection of the Second Amendment during a debate.

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