I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people. - Joe Biden

Today is a ceremony to honor heroes of January sixth.
We also recognize the late US Capitol Police Officer Billy Evans. His family is with us today.
While they were still cordoning off the Capital because threats by these sick insurrectionists continued to be propagated on the internet.
Again, all America saw what happened when Officer Evans was killed defending a checkpoint you had to go through to get up to the Capitol.
Because of these godawful sick threats that continue to move forward.
And the whole world saw it.
It’s just hard to believe, it’s hard to believe it could happen here in America.

To state the obvious, one year ago today, in this sacred place, democracy was attacked — simply attacked. The will of the people was under assault. The Constitution — our Constitution — faced the gravest of threats. Outnumbered and in the face of a brutal attack, the Capitol Police, the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, the National Guard, and other brave law enforcement officials saved the rule of law. Our democracy held. We the people endured. And we the people prevailed. For the first time in our history, a president had not just lost an election, he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power as a violent mob breached the Capitol. But they failed. They failed. And on this day of remembrance, we must make sure that such an attack never, never happens again.

The system wasn't working, and I thought it was time to err on the side of a new model. What might work, I thought, was a system that promoted personal accountability, consistency, and certainty. Congress could say people who committed the same federal crime, under the same circumstances, were going to jail for the same amount of time. We could give judges a narrower set of sentencing guidelines to work with, and felons would be required to pay the same price. We'd be judging the crime, not the person.