Melvin Watt: “This is not about bad guys and good guys. What we do when we subvert the Constitution of the United States to try to get…”

“This is not about bad guys and good guys. What we do when we subvert the Constitution of the United States to try to get some bad guys is that we subvert the Constitution of the United States for the good guys also. We cannot afford to do that. The rules cannot be different for one group and another group, because then we have to decide which one falls into each of those groups. Mr. Chairman, I want to call upon my colleagues to withdraw this bad bill. Bet us out of this pointing of fingers and talking about who is bad and who is good. All of the American citizens are good, until the law says they are bad. We cannot let the police officers on the street make that determination, whether they are with the Internal revenue Service, the ATF, the Atlanta police office, the D.C. police office, whatever. This is about the Constitution. This is not about bad guys and good guys.”