{"id":1134670,"date":"2022-06-12T15:51:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T20:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1134670"},"modified":"2022-06-13T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T20:51:00","slug":"march-for-our-lives-in-longview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1134670","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;March for Our Lives&#8221; in Longview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1134671\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/06\/mfol-175x90.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/06\/mfol-175x90.png 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/06\/mfol.png 441w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>LONGVIEW &#8212; After the mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and in Uvalde, some East Texans got together to address concerns. According to our news partner KETK, on Saturday morning, they gathered at Longview&#8217;s Heritage Plaza in hopes of pressuring lawmakers into making some change. Organizers said the goal isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t to have our second amendment rights taken away, but rather allowing them to exercise their first amendment rights. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Have our legislators understand and know, and hear our voice, that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had enough and something needs to be done,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Adam Farmer, one of the event organizers. People of all ages joined the effort, including at least one as young as seven. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Some lawmakers say there is a bigger picture we must be looking at. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Democrats are always fixated on curtailing the rights of law-abiding citizens rather than trying to understand why this evil happens,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Rep. Jim Jordan from Ohio. But organizers hope this event will show lawmakers that we could always be doing more. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Keep it safe, and keep those around you safe from that gun falling into the wrong hands,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Farmer added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; After the mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and in Uvalde, some East Texans got together to address concerns. According to our news partner KETK, on Saturday morning, they gathered at Longview&#8217;s Heritage Plaza in hopes of pressuring lawmakers into making some change. Organizers said the goal isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t to have our second amendment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1134670\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;March for Our Lives&#8221; in Longview<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1134678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/06\/mfol-175x90.png","fifu_image_alt":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153March for Our Lives\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in Longview","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 15:16:39","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\/mfol-175x90.png","fifu_image_alt":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153March for Our Lives\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in Longview","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134670","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1134670"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134826,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134670\/revisions\/1134826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1134678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1134670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1134670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1134670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}