{"id":241926,"date":"2013-02-25T02:26:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T08:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=241926"},"modified":"2013-02-25T14:11:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T20:11:51","slug":"smith-county-gun-rights-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=241926","title":{"rendered":"Smith County Gun Rights Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=241791\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-241791\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/02\/day_of_resistance.1361640752-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"day_of_resistance.1361640752\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-241791\" \/><\/a>SMITH COUNTY \u2014 Hundreds of concerned citizens gathered at Rose City Flying Clays, north of Tyler, Saturday for a \u201cDay of Resistance\u201d rally. The event, similar to others nationwide, is termed a grassroots effort to organize local conservatives to stand up and protect their 2nd amendment rights. Former Smith County Republican chairman and current Grassroots America \u2013 We the People member Ashton Oravetz says the power of the American people is potent. He told KETK he was pleased to see the effort happening locally and across the country. Grassroots America executive director JoAnn Fleming spoke about preserving the second amendment and American liberty. \u201cNever let it be said that liberty died on our watch,\u201d said Fleming. <\/p>\n<p>Smith County Sheriff Larry Smith took a stand publicly. Smith told the crowd, \u201cWe here in Smith County, Smith County Sheriff\u2019s office, and I assure you every sheriff across the state of Texas, the other 253 of them \u2014 I would expect to stand right along beside me in defending your right to keep and bear arms should anyone try and take it away from you.\u201d State Representative Bryan Hughes ran down the list of current bills in our state legislature that he says are aimed at protecting the 2nd amendment and pushing back against Washington. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY \u2014 Hundreds of concerned citizens gathered at Rose City Flying Clays, north of Tyler, Saturday for a \u201cDay of Resistance\u201d rally. The event, similar to others nationwide, is termed a grassroots effort to organize local conservatives to stand up and protect their 2nd amendment rights. Former Smith County Republican chairman and current Grassroots &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=241926\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County Gun Rights Rally<\/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-241926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-05 12:44:51","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\/241926","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=241926"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242011,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241926\/revisions\/242011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}