Senator Joe Biden in 1993:
Crime is caused by a group that is "born out-of-wedlock, without parents, and without a conscience developing."
His solution to the problem? "We have no choice but to take them out of society."
He says that excuses about victimhood & "root causes" don't matter to him.
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We need to take action against the individuals who pose a threat to our loved ones, regardless of their background or circumstances. Whether they were deprived or victims of society, it doesn't matter. We must address the issue of young people who lack guidance, structure, and conscience. If we don't intervene, they will become predators in the future. Society, partly due to neglect, has created these individuals, but that doesn't mean we excuse their actions. We must remove them from society to protect our families. Many of these individuals are beyond redemption.
Speaker 0: Take back to the streets. It doesn't matter whether or not the person that is accosting your son or daughter or my son or daughter, my wife, your husband, my mother, your parents. It doesn't matter whether or not they were deprived as a youth. It doesn't matter or not whether or not they had no background that enabled them to have to, become, social, become socialized into the fabric of society. It doesn't matter whether or not they're the victims of society.
The end result is they're about to knock my mother on the head with a lead pipe, shoot my sister, beat up my wife, take on my sons. So I don't wanna ask what made them do this. They must be taken off the street. Lest we do something about that cadre of young people, tens of thousands of them, born out of wedlock, without parents, without supervision, without any structure, without any conscience developing because they literally I yield myself 3 more minutes. Because they literally have not been socialized.
They literally have not had an opportunity. We should focus on them now, not out of a liberal instinct for love, brother, and humanity, although I think that's a good instinct, but for simple pragmatic reasons. If we don't, they will or a portion of them will become the predators 15 years from now. And madam president, we have predators on our streets that society has in fact, in part because of its neglect, created. Again, it does not mean because we created them that we somehow forgive them or do not take them out of society to protect my family and yours from them.
They are beyond the pale, many of those people.
