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On the recordMarch 16, 2017
Reclaiming my time, that is what you should have said rather than say that I didn't offer specifics, and I just want to make that very clear to you. I don't think that people with diagnosis of schizophrenia, that have been allowed--that their fiduciaries have determined that their mental illness allows that they should not get a gun, I suggest to you and to anybody that those persons that have a gun--and I made the distinction. You evidently didn't hear that part either. I made the distinction about the Second Amendment and how much I support it and I support veterans, and I support veterans' rights to defend themselves. But I don't support crazy people having guns, whether they are veterans or not, and it is just that simple. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members of both sides of the aisle are reminded to address their remarks to the Chair.
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Doc Hastings
Republican · Washington
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Mar 16, 2017

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