{"id":1131772,"date":"2022-06-03T08:54:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T13:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1131772"},"modified":"2022-06-06T04:46:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T09:46:35","slug":"east-texas-politicians-respond-to-president-bidens-gun-violence-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1131772","title":{"rendered":"East Texas politicians respond to President Biden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gun violence address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1131773\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/06\/louie-gohmert-5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>EAST TEXAS &#8212; One week after 19 students and two teachers were gunned down at a Texas school and one day after four were shot and killed at an Oklahoma hospital, President Joe Biden addressed the nation on gun violence Thursday evening. Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert spoke during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on gun control legislation. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Democrats control the cities with the worst murder rates,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Louie Gohmert. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s right. Your ideas have been shown to get people killed.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Lawmakers on both sides have been negotiating gun laws since the Uvalde shooting, and some GOP members fear losing their Second Amendment rights. The President and the Democratic party argue that we need stricter gun laws.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1131775\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/06\/MATTSCHAFER-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>In a statement, State Representative Matt Schaefer, who represents Tyler in Austin, wrote to our news partner KETK: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If Biden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gun control ideas work, why do so many people in Chicago get shot every weekend? Criminals ignore the many laws we already have. My faith is with law-abiding Texans and our Constitutional principles that stand the test of time.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS &#8212; One week after 19 students and two teachers were gunned down at a Texas school and one day after four were shot and killed at an Oklahoma hospital, President Joe Biden addressed the nation on gun violence Thursday evening. Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert spoke during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on gun &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1131772\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Texas politicians respond to President Biden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gun violence address<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1131777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/06\/louie-gohmert-5-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"East Texas politicians respond to President Biden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gun violence address","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1131772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 01:38:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/06\/louie-gohmert-5-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"East Texas politicians respond to President Biden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gun violence address","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1131772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1131776,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131772\/revisions\/1131776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1131777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1131772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1131772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1131772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}