EAST TEXAS \u2014 Area sheriffs surveyed by our news partner KETK continue to voice their support for the Second Amendment, amid the ongoing gun rights debate. Cherokee County Sheriff James Campbell says sheriffs across the state took an oath New Year\u2019s Day \u201cand swore to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and\u2026the Texas Constitution, and I\u2019m sure that\u2019s what all sheriffs plan to do.\u201d Gregg County\u2019s Maxey Cerliano supplied a statement reading, \u201cI have taken an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States and of this state. This includes the Second Amendment, and that is my intent.\u201d Smith County Sheriff Larry Smith weighed in earlier with similar sentiments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
EAST TEXAS \u2014 Area sheriffs surveyed by our news partner KETK continue to voice their support for the Second Amendment, amid the ongoing gun rights debate. Cherokee County Sheriff James Campbell says sheriffs across the state took an oath New Year\u2019s Day \u201cand swore to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and\u2026the … Continue reading Area Sheriffs Back Second Amendment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-05 06:03:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237340","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237340"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237558,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237340\/revisions\/237558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}