… something like gun violence prevention, which even a few years ago, I think people would say, never in Michigan would there be legislation to address gun violence prevention. I mean, The NRA had a stranglehold on our legislature. It was sort of this third rail issue. And then we had been working on legislation for going past, even when I've been in the legislature for about a decade, … (03:10–03:14)
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