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Derrick Van Orden: “You can't have a cooling off period or a waiting period on…”

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

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E1: Rep. Derrick Van Orden, (WI-03) | Retired Navy SEAL

Published | Video Starts at 06:54

You either believe that our rights are given to us by God and they're articulated in the Constitution, meaning That they're immutable. You either believe that or you don't. So You can't have a cooling off period or a waiting period on something that's immutable by definition. You can't do that. The real issue that you're having in Chicago and some of these other places, that you have young men that don't have fathers in their homes, … (06:54–07:00)

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Asserts that rights articulated in the Constitution are immutable and cannot have waiting periods.

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