{"id":1266679,"date":"2022-02-02T18:24:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T23:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1266679"},"modified":"2022-02-02T18:24:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T23:24:47","slug":"squad-member-cori-bush-employs-pro-gun-private-security-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/squad-member-cori-bush-employs-pro-gun-private-security-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Squad\u2019 Member Cori Bush Employs Pro-Gun Private Security Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsquad-member-cori-bush-employs-pro-gun-private-security-firm%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1266679&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Defund the police advocate gave $90K to group that promotes pro-gun messages on social media<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1236034080-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"denied:data:image\/gif;base64, R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1236034080-scaled-e1643840026703.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1236034080-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1236034080-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1236034080-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1236034080-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1236034080-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1236034080-1400x933.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tRep. Cori Bush (D., Mo.) (Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/joseph-simonson\/\" title=\"Posts by Joseph Simonson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Joseph Simonson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/matthew-foldi\/\" title=\"Posts by Matthew Foldi\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Matthew Foldi<\/a> \u2022 February 2, 2022 6:15 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Rep. Cori Bush (D., Mo.), a leading socialist member of Congress who wants to defund the police, spent tens of thousands of dollars on a right-wing private security firm that promotes the Second Amendment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bush, a member of the far-left &#8220;Squad,&#8221; spent more than $90,000 on Peace Security LLC, a private security firm, since she took office last year, according to campaign finance documents reviewed by the <\/span><i><span>Washington Free Beacon<\/span><\/i><span>. She spent more than $50,000 on the firm in the last quarter alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The hiring of the security firm contrasts with the anti-police, pro-gun control agenda Bush promotes on Capitol Hill. Although Bush <a href=\"https:\/\/coribush.org\/public-safety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says<\/a> that restricting the public\u2019s access to firearms will make Missourians safer, her private security force regularly shares Facebook posts expressing right-wing views on gun control.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1562448\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1-4-813x1024-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1-4-813x1024.png 813w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1-4-238x300.png 238w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1-4-768x967.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1-4-736x927.png 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1-4-390x491.png 390w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1-4.png 834w\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>On the campaign trail and in office, Bush regularly calls for greater background checks for gun purchases. Meanwhile, her security firm in March 2021 argued against the gun control measure by pointing out that &#8220;criminals by definition DON\u2019T OBEY LAWS.&#8221; Another post shared by the firm in June 2019 features a picture of a woman holding a gun with the caption, &#8220;This stops rape. Not a whistle.&#8221; In March 2021 Peace Security shared a post from a Facebook page called Defiant Arms with the caption, &#8220;[A felon] must be taught to fear his victim.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1562442\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1-3-572x1024-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1-3-572x1024.png 572w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1-3-168x300.png 168w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1-3-274x491.png 274w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1-3.png 606w\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1562454\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1-2-573x1024-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1-2-573x1024.png 573w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1-2-168x300.png 168w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1-2-275x491.png 275w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1-2.png 672w\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Guns don\u2019t kill people, people kill people,&#8221; Peace Security wrote in a February 2020 post. In another about the &#8220;Racist Roots of Gun Control,&#8221; the firm lamented that America\u2019s gun control laws are systemically racist.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1562445\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1.png 910w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1-300x285.png 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1-768x729.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1-736x699.png 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1-517x491.png 517w\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Throughout much of American history, gun control was openly stated as a method for keeping blacks and Hispanics \u2018in their place,\u2019 and to quiet the racial fears of whites,&#8221; the post reads.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1562451\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1-1-822x1024-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1-1-822x1024.png 822w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1-1-241x300.png 241w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1-1-768x957.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1-1-736x917.png 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1-1-394x491.png 394w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1-1.png 844w\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>Neither Peace Security nor Bush responded to a request for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bush, a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/meet-rep-cori-bush-and-her-fellow-faith-healers\/\">self-proclaimed faith healer<\/a> whose car was recently <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/27\/politics\/cori-bush-car-gunfire\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>hit<\/span><\/a><span> by a stray bullet, is unequivocal about the need to defund and disband police departments. When asked in August 2021 about the apparent contradiction between advocating fewer police officers while paying thousands of dollars for private security, Bush responded, &#8220;Suck it up, and defunding the police has to happen, we need to defund the police.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The latest revelations about Bush\u2019s campaign spending come amid an otherwise lackluster fundraising quarter. Despite her membership in the high-profile House &#8220;Squad,&#8221; Bush herself only raised $238,536 in the final three months of 2021. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), in contrast, raised nearly $1.5 million during that same period.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Defund the police advocate gave $90K to group that promotes pro-gun messages on social media  Rep. Cori Bush (D., Mo.) 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