Three Tennessee lawmakers joined a student protest days after a mass shooting at a Nashville school. One Republican compared the protest to Jan. 6.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3wgqx/tennessee-legislators-expelled-justin-jones
#News #Nashvilleshooting #gunviolence #Tennessee #PROTESTS

TN Republicans currently moving to expel three Democrats from the House—Reps. Gloria Johnson of Knoxville, Justin Jones of Nashville and Justin Pearson of Memphis—for chanting from the floor during last week's gun protests…

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2023/04/03/tennessee-republicans-file-resolutions-to-expel-three-democrats-who-led-gun-reform-chants-on-house-f/70078002007/

I love how now, all of the sudden, the demographics of a mass shooter are suddenly worth considering to the right.

But not, you know, the demographics in the 648 mass shootings that happened just last year.

Pennsylvania state troopers said that calls to several local schools were “believed to be computer-generated swatting calls.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxj885/pittsburgh-school-shooting-swatting
#News #philadelphia #gunviolence #schoolshootings #Pittsburgh #Pennsylvania #Swatting #Nashvilleshooting #police

Of course it’s not doors that are going to prevent mass shootings

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/nashville-shooting-shows-school-doors-security-weakness-expert/story?id=98178022

There have been 376 school shootings since the Columbine High School massacre

More than 348,000 students have experienced gun violence at school since Columbine, in 1999.

— @tdwllms1

“If they cared about kids they’d ban guns instead of books.”

— @godpod

@gwfoto

The #NashvilleShooting is yet another tragic case of #DarwinianGunControl - the ONLY kind that is approved by the #NRA.

Police said three children, aged 9, as well as three adults, were killed in the attack on a private Christian school.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bgwa/nashville-covenant-shooter-identified
#News #Crime #TheExtremismDesk #Nashvilleshooting #guns