B
And, uh, try and figure out what would be a suitable punishment. Uh,
A
Of the statements made by people against the, the death penalty, um, I, I like the statement made by Cuomo. Cuomo I believe is, um, he's, he's governor of New York but, uh, he's, uh, against the death penalty. But, um, he said that he would, he would want to, to seriously hurt or if not kill someone if, if they did something to his wife. And that's, but, but, even, even in that circumstan-, in that, uh, uh, situation he would b-, he would hope that there would be people around him who would, uh, keep him from doing the, doing the things.
B
Oh, it's a, uh, it's a question of your, your gut reactions to something like that versus an intelligent reason response.
A
Right, exactly.
B
Uh, a-, and that was the thing that, uh, killed Dukakis back, uh, four years ago when someone asked him a similar question and he, he thought for a second and gave a thoughtful well reasoned reply when, uh, people wanted to see if he was going to go for an emotion --
A
Uh-huh.