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Beth Van Duyne: “We are blaming law abiding citizens and where we need to be…”

Featuring: Beth Van Duyne, Republican | U.S. House, Texas, District 24

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Interview Texas Republican Candidate For 24th Congressional District Beth Van Duyne

Published | Video Starts at 19:21

They Let these criminals back out on the the streets to commit more crimes and then they want to be able to say it both ways. The problem that I have right now with our focus on gun control laws is We are blaming law abiding citizens and where we need to be looking at is those folks who are committing crimes. which means that when we have them in the court system that we are very serious about our penalties and not continuously pleading down what should be felonies to misdemeanor and laying them back out on the street. (19:21–19:28)

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Asserts that the focus should be on criminals rather than law-abiding citizens in gun control discussions.

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