03/11/2019
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"assault weapons have become the favorite weapon for many mass murderers."
"If we just take my district, since I have been in Congress, I have lost five officers who were overpowered by perpetrators because they were better-armed than my police officers."
"Let's just, for purpose of this hearing, call them weapons of mass destruction, because there are three officers in Baton Rouge whose families will never see them again."
"So, in the sense of patrolling--and I guess I am trying to make a balance in between that need for a weapon of mass destruction and the need for self-defense."