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I Think, The Left Makes A Mistake. If You Look Particularly At The State Levels, Violent Repeat Criminals Are Not Punished Enough. The Average Murderer Is Sentenced To 17 1/2 Years But Serves Six. The Average Rapist Is Sentenced To 10 Years But Serves About Three And A Half. The Average Mugger Is Sentenced To Five Years And Serves Little More Than One.

Crime Can Be A Unifying Argument - Not An Argument That People Use As A Code For Us Vs. Them.

You Do Have To Change Things As Warfare Changes.

Substantively Democrats Are Much Closer To Where The American People Are Than Republicans Are.

You Know, My Name .... Comes From The Word Shomer, Guardian, Watcher. My Ancestors Were Guardians Of The Ghetto Wall In Chortkov. And I Believe Hashem [orthodox For God] Actually Gave Me That Name. One Of My Roles, Very Important In The United States Senate, Is To Be A Shomer - To Be A Or The Shomer Yisrael. And I Will Continue To Be That With Every Bone In My Body.