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Walter B. Jones: But one thing that my colleague was saying that really rang up there with me is that it is so tragic in this Nation…

On the recordMarch 31, 1998
But one thing that my colleague was saying that really rang up there with me is that it is so tragic in this Nation today where I believe the Justice Department reports that 100,000 young people bring guns to school every day. I want to repeat that. 100,000 students bring guns to school every day. Yet those same students, and please correct me if I am incorrect, those same students cannot bring a Bible to the school but yet they can carry guns.
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Walter B. Jones
North Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Addressing the issue of gun violence in schools and the inability to bring religious texts.

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