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On an amendment to a gun control bill
that would have banned gun sales to drug addicts
or people in drug treatment:
"My sons are 25 and 30. They are blond-haired
and blue-eyed. One amendment today said we could
not sell guns to anybody under drug treatment.
So, does that mean if you go into a black community,
you cannot sell a gun to any black person, or does
that mean because my..."
[NOTE: her comments were interrupted at that point by Melvin
Watt (D-N.C.)
who demanded that her words be stricken from the record as
inappropriate.] --Washington Post
"You might think that Mrs. Cubin then would
have realized she had equated
African Americans with drug addicts and apologized as profusely
as
possible."
--From Washington Post editorial about Cubin's remarks
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