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Rep. Massie says 'good guys' with guns stopping 'bad guys' is 'inconvenient truth' for Dems
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Rep. Massie accused Democrats of wanting to 'trample' the Second Amendment after Rep. Cicilline dismissed the notion of legal gun owners stopping gun crime in the U.S.
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"I don’t think there is a single incident – and maybe there’s one, but I’ve not found one – of an assailant using an assault weapon that was stopped by a person with a gun, so this is a – maybe there’s one of the thousands and thousands and thousands of shootings, but the truth of the matter is school resource officers are an important response to school safety," Cicilline, who represents Rhode Island’s 1st Congressional District, said on Thursday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Democrat-backed gun control bill Protecting Our Kids Act.
Following Cicilline’s statement, Massie pushed back and submitted a list to the congressional record of incidents where "good guys" with guns stopped "bad guys" from carrying out mass shootings.