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So this is what Mike Pence had to say in

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the last debate.

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Let me speak to the mass shootings issue.

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And we're gonna pass a federal expedited death
penalty for

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anyone involved in a mass shooting so that
they will

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meet their fate in months.

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So Mike Pence's legislation here is nothing
more than a

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political placebo.

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That does nothing for the actual problem and
symptoms that

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we face in this country.

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Anyone who wants to commit a mass murder like
this,

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like a mass shooting, they're likely to die in
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process of trying.

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And even if they do somehow survive, then the
death

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penalty is usually on the table in trial,
depending upon

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the state that they're in.

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So obviously, increasing the punishment for
these kind of crimes

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does not deincentivize the type of people who
would be

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willing to commit these kind of crimes.

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So this really does nothing.

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I'm so very tired of politicians dropping
political placebos like

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this.

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This really shows that they don't actually
care about the

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actual symptom.

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If you actually cared, if you really did want
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make mitigate these problems, you would try to
implement something

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like common sense red flag laws.

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And no, I'm not talking about trying to take
your

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guns away.

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No, I'm talking about common sense red flag
laws to

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keep guns out of hands of people who have a

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history of uh violence, uh history of domestic
abuse, or

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a history of mental illness.