BREAKING: Tennessee’s GOP-controlled House expelled the first of three Democratic lawmakers over gun control protests.
voted on Thursday to expel the first of three Democratic legislators who joined a protest on the House floor last week after a deadly school shooting in Nashville. Protesters gathered at the State Capitol
Ahead of the votes, representative Johnny Garrett criticized the three lawmakers and moved to have a seven-minute video showing the lawmakers on the floor during the protest played. The showing of the video was fought by Democrats, who questioned its relevance, provenance and the benefit of showing it.
"What is happening here today is a situation in which the jury has already publicly announced the verdict," said Jones, who said that he was speaking for young voters in his district"terrified" by mass shootings and criticized the house for not expelling other members who had confessed to crimes or misbehaved in their roles."Just yesterday, the House Speaker took the national news to condemn us and call for expulsion.
Johnson equivocated the bills that would harden schools with turning schools into prisons. In response, Republican representative William Lamberth said that his goal was to have schools be"a fortress" that protected students and staff. Bo Mitchell, another Democrat, compared the bills to using"pain meds to treat cancer," pointing out that the United States is an outlier in regards to school shootings and"mass killings.
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