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Derrick Van Orden: “We have to balance our individual rights that are granted by…”

Featuring: Derrick Van Orden, Republican | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 3

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Derrick Van Orden Asks Official Point Blank If He Believes Constitutional Rights Are Granted By God

Published | Video Starts at 03:08

And again, the reason I told you, I've had so many of my friends commit suicide so that you know that I'm saying this from a place where I want that to stop. But We have to balance our individual rights that are granted by God and articulated in the Constitution with sometimes these most horrible of things. I've held my friend's children's hands at their funeral because their father committed suicide, and I've cried with their widows. So this is real. (03:08–03:16)

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Asserts the need to balance individual rights with addressing serious issues like suicide.

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