You can live in a neighborhood where you pay taxes, where you have police presence, where, if you choose not to own a firearm, your personal safety is covered by others who are bearing firearms and protecting you. But If you're a single woman living in Anacostia, riding the subway and working two jobs, living next to a crack house, struggling to feed your kids, what you're saying is that single mom cannot protect herself if someone comes through the window to harm her kids. I gotta tell you, the D.C. attorney General hated that argument. And he hated it because you Republicans, you're not supposed to. Those are our people. We own the poor. (23:16–23:36)
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Asserts that gun control laws disproportionately affect low-income individuals' ability to protect themselves.
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