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These officers all volunteer. They are not paid any more to do what they do. They cannot be ordered to do what they do. We rely on them. About 60 million of us rely on 5,000 of them to do what none of us can do—to go forward with a gun and deal with a situation that none of us want to face. It is in that circumstance that I think they are, if not a unique group, a very unusual group. Even the military cannot do it unless the Government allow them. This is a pretty special group of people, and we need to support them. I argue that there should be more support. I have argued about when we should charge them. However, this was a singular measure the Government offered in response to the Chris Kaba case and many others.