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Rob Portman: “Reducing drug abuse. They do not talk, frankly, about gun control, they do not talk about the death penalty, they do not…”

On the recordSeptember 19, 1996
Reducing drug abuse. They do not talk, frankly, about gun control, they do not talk about the death penalty, they do not talk about a lot of other issues that are ones we might naturally think would be the best way to reduce violent crimes. The No. 1 issue by far, for them, is illegal drug use. By far the No. 1 way to reduce violent crime in this country. These are the police chiefs, who are on the line.
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Rob Portman
Republican · Ohio

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Discussing the relationship between drug abuse and violent crime.

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