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I've always said, "How what can we do to change the system? The system's screwed
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up >> big time." >> Yeah. >> Some of I don't know how to fix it. These 18,000 little independent
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jurisdictions of authority with no higher authority, no ability to bring in the big guns when a child's murdered
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>> is stupid. Makes no sense. But what can I do to to affect it? So, my new mission, I learned about this just
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recently and I'm retired now, so I got the time to do it, is I met again a Department of Justice, federal
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department of justice fellow that pushed the federal government to enact a homicide victim's family rights act.
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>> Are you going to focus at because I know Biden signed it into law in 2021 federally, but to your point, not in a
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state. Are you going to focus on Colorado or nominees? >> Well, what it gets down to and and the
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DOJ fellow said, "Look, it's easy. It's boilerplate. Here's the law. Mr. Senator, state senator. Put your name at
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the top. Vote on it. It's in. You're done. That's all you got to do. It's real simple." Colorado would be a tough
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cell, I think, because politicians don't want to be involved in our case. >> Would you advocate for it in another
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state? >> Sure. >> Yeah. Um, and I I say I literally just found out about this recently and I've
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got to >> do it. But I think that's a purpose I could >> get behind, >> advocate and get behind and maybe make a
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may maybe make a