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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – Lawmakers are debating ways to prevent more mass shootings. While Democrats push for gun control, Republicans are directing their efforts toward school safety.
One of the proposals on the table is from Rep. Richard Hudson, a Republican from North Carolina.
“The American people want us to do something,” Hudson said. “House Republicans have said we want to do something that matters.”
With House Democrats having passed a sweeping gun reform package Wednesday and senators working on an elusive compromise, House Republicans are on a totally different page — sounding the alarm on attempts to “destroy the Second Amendment.”
“You better believe I am going to have a way to protect myself. I will continue to carry,” Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) pledged, calling it her “great equalizer.”
ROCKINGHAM — A Congressman who once represented Richmond County — and aims to again — is proposing to add more resource officers and mental health resources at schools across the country.
Republican U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson on Tuesday filed the STOP II, Secure Every School and Protect our Nation’s Children Act.
The House passed a sweeping gun package on Wednesday in response to last month’s mass shootings in Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas, that killed more than 30 people and reignited the push for firearm legislation on Capitol Hill.
The package, dubbed the Protecting Our Kids Act, passed in a 223-204 vote. One Republican did not vote.
The House on Wednesday endorsed some of the most aggressive gun-control measures taken up on Capitol Hill in years — including raising the minimum age for the purchase of most semiautomatic rifles to 21 and banning high-capacity ammunition magazines — as Washington seeks to mount a tough response to recent high-profile mass shootings.
Rep. Richard Hudson of North Carolina, a member of House Republican leadership, on Wednesday blasted Democrats for calling a fourth grader who survived the Uvalde shooting and a mother of one of the victims of the Buffalo grocery store shooting to testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representative Richard Hudson (R-NC), the House Republican Conference Secretary, spoke on school safety legislation and the Second Amendment at the House Republican leadership press conference this morning. Rep.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representative Richard Hudson (R-NC) has introduced the STOP II, Secure Every School and Protect our Nation’s Children Act.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representative Richard Hudson (R-NC), the House Republican Conference Secretary, joined Newsmax to discuss the STOP II, Secure Every School and Protect Our Nation’s Children Act, legislation he is introducing to improve school safety and mental health.
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – A new bill going through the U.S. House of Representatives is aiming to add additional school resource officers and mental health counselors in schools.
The “Secure Every Schools and Protect Our Nation’s Children Act” was introduced Tuesday by U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson (NC-8).
“I’m a father of an elementary school child and so every time we have a shooting it’s just devastating for me, and I can only imagine what the parents are going through,” said Hudson.
The legislation would provide $7 billion to protect schools.