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The self-styled Cajun John Wayne was at it again on Wednesday, only now he was not a cop who resigned from a Louisiana police department while facing disciplinary charges for lying about roughing somebody up.
And Clay Higgins’ tough talk was no longer aimed at fugitive felons, as when he made viral crimestopper videos at the second of two Louisiana police departments that subsequently hired him.
Higgins had parlayed the attention he got from the videos into getting elected the U.S. representative for Louisiana’s 3rd Congressional District. He spoke as a member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee during Wednesday’s hearing on assault weapons. He contended that the Democrats are seeking to circumvent the Second Amendment with an assault weapons ban, and he envisioned aloud shootouts between gun owners and federal agents.
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