{"id":427284,"date":"2015-12-09T01:55:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T07:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=427284"},"modified":"2015-12-10T02:16:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T08:16:40","slug":"east-texas-police-chief-appeals-to-public-to-arm-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=427284","title":{"rendered":"East Texas Police Chief Appeals to Public to Arm Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/12\/Randy-Kennedy-Hughes-Springs-Police-Chief.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/12\/Randy-Kennedy-Hughes-Springs-Police-Chief-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Randy Kennedy-Hughes Springs Police Chief\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-427285\" \/><\/a>HUGHES SPRINGS (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The police chief of an East Texas town urges all citizens to arm themselves, saying the federal government lacks any effective plan for fighting terrorism. In a video he posted to his personal Facebook page, Hughes Springs Police Chief Randy Kennedy said listening to President Barack Obama&#8217;s Oval Office speech on terrorism left him in despair over the government&#8217;s ability to fight domestic terrorism.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He urged all law-abiding citizens to apply for concealed handgun permits and stand ready to support any fight against terrorists that might overwhelm the four full-time officers and one part-timer in a town of about 1,800 residents in Cass County, home to about 30,000 residents.<\/p>\n<p>Cass County Sheriff Larry Rowe told the Longview News-Journal that he endorses Kennedy&#8217;s thoughts on an armed citizenry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HUGHES SPRINGS (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The police chief of an East Texas town urges all citizens to arm themselves, saying the federal government lacks any effective plan for fighting terrorism. In a video he posted to his personal Facebook page, Hughes Springs Police Chief Randy Kennedy said listening to President Barack Obama&#8217;s Oval Office speech on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=427284\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Texas Police Chief Appeals to Public to Arm Itself<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":427285,"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-427284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 08:10:37","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\/427284","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=427284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427286,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427284\/revisions\/427286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/427285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}