Sunday on MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton” Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said her husband former President Bill Clinton’s Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which is responsible for today’s mass incarceration controversy was put in place “because there was so much crime, gangs were warring in the streets, crack houses were endemic, crack babies were filling, you know, the wards of our hospitals.” Clinton said, “You remember what we were facing in the ’80s and the early ’90s, and people of color, poor communities, lots of towns and cities, including this great city of New York, were under tremendous pressure because there was so much crime, gangs were warring in the streets, crack houses were endemic, crack babies were filling, you know, the wards of our hospitals, and so yes, we did have to take action. But let’s remember some of the things that were done that we no longer do. We had a ban on assault weapons. I want us to get back to sensible, smart gun prevention of violence. I want us to have not just universal background checks but I want us to really have the country rise up against the special interests