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It's Time To Question Laws That Senselessly Expand The Concept Of Self-defense And Sow Dangerous Conflict In Our Neighborhoods. These Laws Try To Fix Something That Was Never Broken. There Has Always Been A Legal Defense For Using Deadly Force If - And The 'if' Is Important - If No Safe Retreat Is Available. But We Must Examine Laws That Take This Further By Eliminating The Common Sense And Age-old Requirement That People Who Feel Threatened Have A Duty To Retreat, Outside Their Home, If They Can Do So Safely.

When You Compare What People Endured In The South In The 60s To Try To Get The Right To Vote For African Americans, And To Compare What People Were Subjected To There To What Happened In Philadelphia - Which Was Inappropriate, Certainly That . . . To Describe It In Those Terms I Think Does A Great Disservice To People Who Put Their Lives On The Line, Who Risked All, For My People.

Whether It Is An Attempt To Bomb The New York City Subway System, An Attempt To Bring Down An Airplane Over Detroit, An Attempt To Set Off A Bomb In Times Square ... I Think That Gives Us A Sense Of The Breadth Of The Challenges That We Face, And The Kinds Of Things That Our Enemy Is Trying To Do.

Guantanamo Is A Chief Recruiting Tool For Al-qaida. It Has Put A Wedge Between The United States And At Least Some Of Its Allies.

I Understand The Second Amendment. I Respect The Second Amendment. I Think We Need To Use Common Sense Tools To Keep The American People Safe, To Keep Our Streets Safe.