What if the gentleman found out that the three strikes provision does not carry any discretion, and that little incident that you talked about, and I have some more in which the third offense being a violent offense, that is it, for the rest of your natural life? Does that, or is that something we might want to go back and hold hearings on, for example, to see if it might be corrected?
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