{"id":10244,"date":"2022-06-08T22:18:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T22:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/families-of-mass-shooting-victims-testify-before-congress-as-lawmakers-debate-legislation\/"},"modified":"2022-06-08T22:18:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T22:18:14","slug":"families-of-mass-shooting-victims-testify-before-congress-as-lawmakers-debate-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=10244","title":{"rendered":"Families of mass shooting victims testify before Congress as lawmakers debate legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7JNws5Dtzm8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>As negotiations on gun legislation continued on Capitol Hill, lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee heard wrenching testimony from those affected by recent mass shootings. Democrats on the committee cited these witnesses as motivation to push for stricter gun laws. But Republicans cautioned against any laws that would impact law-abiding gun owners. 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Democrats on the committee cited these witnesses as motivation to push for stricter gun laws.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4988],"tags":[13249,13166,15112,15343,15344,11364,871,12980,15345,2174,11962,14292,15346,13645,6043,15347,15348,5631,5488,11370,12979,12978,11504,15349,12976],"class_list":["post-10244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","category-politics-feed","tag-2nd-amendment","tag-ar-15","tag-assault-weapons","tag-assault-weapons-ban","tag-buffalo-new-york-shooting","tag-buffalo-shooting","tag-congress","tag-elementary-school-shooting-texas","tag-firearm-laws","tag-gun-control","tag-gun-legislation","tag-gun-policy","tag-gun-purchasing-age","tag-gun-regulation","tag-gun-violence","tag-gun-violence-deaths","tag-gun-violence-hearing","tag-mass-shooting","tag-mass-shootings","tag-racist-shooting","tag-school-shooting","tag-texas-school-shooting","tag-tops-shooting","tag-uvadle-testimony","tag-uvalde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}