texas says she s safe and unharmed after using her own gun to save her life. our chief breaking news correspondent trace gallagher has more on that story. hey, trace. hi, shannon. 2:30 sue s stomach tuesday morning when police say michelle hudgins had just parked her heart worked on my car out of her home and two men reached into the driver side window to grab her purse, but before they could grab the bag, she reached in, pulled out her gun and fired two shots. watch. it was all i had in my gun. i shot, i couldn t shoot anymore. i saved my life. i saved my life. police later found a juvenile male with a gunshot wound. he will survive but is facing average. abrogated stomach aggravated robbery charges and texas g.o.p. congressman dan crenshaw is using the story to argue for gun rights saying that with universal background checks he wouldn t be able to let his friends borrow his handgun for safety. this democratic counterpart,
alexandria ocasio-cortez responded with an unusual conclusion, quoting, you are a member of congress, why are you lending guns to people unsupervised who can t pass a basic background check? the people you re giving a gun to have likely abused their spouse or have a violent criminal record and you may not know what. why on earth would you do that? in return, he wrote, quoting, just one click from you think my friends are domestic abusers, criminals? seriously? better argument? that they can t pass background checks? wrong. people lend guns to friends, especially if they don t own a gun, for self-defense and hunting purposes. this is america outside new york city. meantime, the separatist go board of supervisors approved a resolution naming mra as a domestic terror group that promotes gun ownership and insights gun owners to act violently. watch. people are dying every day in his country, 100 people moves their lives to gun violence prevention and doing nothing is not an option an
little earlier about the young woman on a texas we used a gun to defend herself and i know you have faced some pretty terrifying things in your own life. what about the fact that people say you pass more gun restrictions, criminals are not going to pay attention to them and it s good people who may lose the ability to defend themselves? well, this woman who defended herself, as many people who do, was not carrying an assault weapon in her purse. she did not get it illegally and she didn t borrow it from congressman crenshaw. but what we do see is the idea that more guns make a safer and in texas, where they have they are in the top percentage of the united states of guns owned per capita per household in that state. you had a passel, you had odessa. when i sat on the couch next to the lieutenant governor of texas and i asked him face to face, could you please tell me could you please tell me, mr. patrick, why in the state of texas when you have so many concealed carry permits, th
he said because those people ran away from the gunman because that, shannon, is our human nature. it is fight or flight. this woman saved her life, but that is not the story the majority of the time and if it was, than with the increase gun ownership not just in texas but across this country, we should have less mass killings than we do. shannon: we do see stories of people who run towards these things and a lot of times they are former military law enforcement officers or just people who are thoroughly and representative, that takes an investment of your time and willingness to do those kinds of things, but how to respond to leslie foster best statistics regarding texas? this woman showed great bravery and it s really an insult to people to say that they shouldn t have the right to have that gun, to defend themselves, because you don t know how they re going to react. you don t know how you are going to react either but that is a god-given right, to protect her family, to protect
the forest because you don t need an assault weapon to do that. and with regard to god, i have read the bible a number of times cover to cover in one of the reasons i must say this, i m going to get in trouble for saying this but i left christianity because of the perversion of god s word. god does say i believe in the bible that we have an inalienable right to defend ourselves but not with these types of weapons, that i just can t buy. shannon: is important to note that when you talk about assault weapons, a lot of times that s thrown around deeply to understand the last man it was pretty much dealing with cosmetic things, scopes, bandits, things that could be added to the gun but didn t change the ability of that gun to fire bullets and the way that they were fired, so, you know, way to clarify when we are talking about things. quick final ordeal, representative about the religious issue there. cheney, first of all, i want to make a point. look at what s happening in chicago wi