{"id":1509263,"date":"2022-06-09T11:06:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T15:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1509263"},"modified":"2022-06-09T11:06:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T15:06:37","slug":"dont-need-the-government-to-save-me-gun-rights-activist-shoots-down-gun-control-laws-in-fiery-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dont-need-the-government-to-save-me-gun-rights-activist-shoots-down-gun-control-laws-in-fiery-testimony\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Don\u2019t Need The Government To Save Me\u2019: Gun Rights Activist Shoots Down Gun Control Laws In Fiery Testimony"},"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\">36<\/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%2Fdont-need-the-government-to-save-me-gun-rights-activist-shoots-down-gun-control-laws-in-fiery-testimony%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=1509263&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-7556-e1654782988838.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Gun rights activist Lucretia Hughes testified that communities need secure schools and societal improvements rather than gun control laws in a fiery testimony Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes, a member of the DC Project \u2014 Women for Gun Rights, lost her 19-year-old son in 2016 to gun violence from a criminal with \u201can evil heart,\u201d she testified. She said gun control laws will not prevent a person from obtaining a firearm illegally or save lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur gun control lobbyists and politicians claim that their policies will save lives and reduce violence. Well, those policies did not save my son. The laws being discussed are already implemented in cities across this country. We have decades of evidence proving they do not work. St. Louis, New York, Chicago, Washington, Atlanta \u2014 are gun control utopias and they are plagued with the most violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hughes said the gun control lobby has \u201cfailed the black community,\u201d calling on Congress to allow her and other black Americans to defend themselves. She called on the citizens to be their \u201cown first responders\u201d as a handful of lawmakers push to defund the police. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/02\/joe-biden-gun-control-demands-call-on-congress-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Biden Lays Out Slew Of Gun Control Demands, Urges Congress To Act)<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a curse on the black community and everyone else\u2019s,\u201d she said. \u201cSomething has to change. Thoughts and prayers and calls for more gun control isn\u2019t enough. How about letting me defend myself from evil? You don\u2019t think that I\u2019m capable and trustworthy to handle a firearm? You don\u2019t think the Second Amendment doesn\u2019t apply to people that look like me? Who, and you, who call for more gun control are the same ones that are calling to defund the police. Who is supposed to protect us? We must learn to be out own first responders to protect ourselves and our loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a legal, law-abiding citizen, and I don\u2019t need the government to save me,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>She said education, rather than stricter gun laws, is the \u201ckey to safety.\u201d She said her organization supports the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/115th-congress\/house-bill\/34\/text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Safe Students Act<\/a>, introduced by Republican Kentucky <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2015\/01\/09\/u-s-representative-massie-proposes-repeal-of-federal-gun-free-school-zones-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rep. Thomas Massie<\/a>, which intends to repeal gun free zones in order to allow individuals to conceal carry on school grounds.<\/p>\n<p>She recalled the May 24 school <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/29\/doj-investigates-uvalde-police-response-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shooting<\/a> in Uvalde, Texas, that killed 19 students and 2 fourth-grade teachers. Reports found that 19 officers entered the building at 11:35 a.m. but did not breach the barricaded classroom for over an hour despite receiving several 911 calls from students. She argued gun control laws will \u201cembolden the criminals\u201d rather ensure Americans\u2019 safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe call on Congress to ban gun free zones, fund non-partisan firearm education programs, like Kids Safe Foundation and non-governmental mental health organizations like Hold My Guns. And in closing, I claim that nothing in these bills do anything to make us safer or address the mental health crisis in this country,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite living with the heartache of losing my son on a daily basis, I believe it is our God-given right to defend ourselves from any act of violence. Making it even more difficult or even more expensive for me and people that look like me and other law abiding citizens will not make us safer. It will embolden the criminals. Gun owners are not the enemies. And these gun control policies are not the solution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gun rights activist Lucretia Hughes testified that communities need secure schools and societal improvements rather than gun control laws in a fiery testimony Wednesday.Hughes, a member of the DC Project<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}