Republican efforts to block debate are only fueling the gun-control movement.
Uvalde high school and middle school students march down Main Streeton April 5, chanting, “End gun violence,” and “No justice no peace,” while participating in a national walkout.State lawmakers are rarely removed from office by their colleagues. When it happens, it’s usually because of conduct that’s either criminal or undeniably egregious.
Justin Pearson and Justin Jones didn’t break any laws. They didn’t violate the trust of the voters who sent them to the Tennessee Capitol. I’m all for decorum in legislative chambers. But I also understand that when the people of this country continually see children mutilated in their schools by weapons of war and lawmakers stubbornly refuse to even discuss common-sense reforms, decorum can start to feel like a tool of oppression.
Pearson and Jones were showing their solidarity with a demonstration inside the Tennessee Capitol in response to a May 27 mass shooting at Nashville’s Covenant School that killed three children and three adults.Gutierrez’s district includes Uvalde, a town traumatized by a shooting last May at Robb Elementary which took the lives of 19 children and two teachers.
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