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Tennessee’s House expels 2 Democrats over gun protest, VP Harris travels to meet them

In an extraordinary act of political retaliation, Tennessee Republicans on Thursday expelled two Democratic lawmakers from the state Legislature for their role in a protest calling for more gun control in the aftermath of a deadly school shooting in Nashville. A third Democrat was narrowly spared by a one-vote margin.

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Biden condemns ‘shocking’ Tennessee lawmaker expulsions over gun furor

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden condemned Tennessee Republicans’ expulsion of two lawmakers who protested a deadly Nashville school shooting last week, calling the episode unprecedented and criticizing GOP leaders for refusing to enact tighter gun-control laws.

Tribune News Service

Biden condemns ‘shocking’ Tennessee expulsions over gun furor

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden condemned Tennessee Republicans’ expulsion of two lawmakers who protested a deadly Nashville school shooting last week, calling the episode unprecedented and calling out GOP leaders for refusing to enact tighter gun-control laws.

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Kamala Harris to meet with expelled Tennessee lawmakers

Vice President Kamala Harris is making a last-minute trip to Tennessee on Friday, hours after the Republican-controlled House expelled two Democratic lawmakers from the state Legislature in retaliation for their role in a protest calling for more gun control in the aftermath of a deadly school shooting in Nashville

The Independent UK

Tennessee House expels 2 Democrats for gun-control protest

The GOP supermajority in the House banished Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, who are both Black, for joining a protest for gun control after the Nashville school shooting.

Chicago Sun-Times

Tennessee's state legislature expels 2 of 3 Democrats over gun control protest after Nashville shooting

In an act of political retaliation, Tennessee Republicans expel two Democrats from the state legislature for their role in a protest that called for more gun control in the aftermath of a school shooting in Nashville.

ABC News

Tennessee GOP expels two of three Democrats who joined gun protests in wake of Nashville school shooting

‘It is no coincidence that the two youngest Black lawmakers in the state of Tennessee, and one of two women, are on trial today. That is not accidental. This is what happened when you lose democracy’

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Tennessee Republicans vote on expelling Democrats for gun protest

Vote takes place days after deadly Nashville school shooting, with advocates calling possible ousting ‘undemocratic’.

Al Jazeera

Do 'More Guns Lead To More Deaths'?

No, and that good news needs to be front and center in all discussions of gun control, especially after school shootings.

Reason

Tennessee Republicans bid to expel Democrats who cheered gun control protest

Republican legislators introduce resolution to remove trio after they supported protest in wake of Nashville school shooting

The Guardian - US

Nashville police: School shooter planned attack for months

As students across Nashville were walking out of class to protest gun violence following a school shooting last week, police released new information into the investigation

The Independent UK

Editorial: No, all transgender Americans aren't implicated by the actions of one killer

It was entirely predictable, but still despicable, that right-wing demagogues like Sen. Josh Hawley are trying to spin Monday’s Nashville school shooting into an indictment of transgender Americans generally because the assailant happened to identify as trans. That was the obvious thrust of a Fox News discussion between the Missouri…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Funeral held for ‘spitfire’ teacher killed in Nashville school shooting

Cindy ‘CiCi’ Peak, 61, was among six victims who were shot to death at the Covenant School

The Guardian - US

States aim to boost school safety after Tennessee shooting

In the wake of a deadly elementary school shooting in Tennessee earlier this week, state lawmakers across the country are moving forward with school safety measures

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Pastors: Palm Sunday a balm after Nashville school shooting

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‘It feels like it happens every week’: Nashville grapples with gun debate after school shooting massacre

Less than a year after 19 children and two teachers were killed by a teenage gunman in Uvalde, Texas, a 28-year-old shooter killed three children and three adults more than 1,000 miles away in Tennessee. Nashville has been added to the list of tragic school shooting sites, as the famed…

Daily Mirror

Nashville school shooting: first funeral held for nine-year-old "shining light" victim

"Shining light" Evelyn Dieckhaus was one of three nine-year-old children who were murdered alongside their principal and a school custodian when warped former Covenant School student mowed them down with an assault rifle in Nashville on Monday

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The Nashville school shooting highlights the partisan divide over gun legislation

President Biden this week called for the reinstatement of an assault weapons ban, a law that had roots in a 1989 shooting in a California schoolyard. Here's a look at what got that ban on the books.

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Stunned community remembers Evelyn Dieckhaus days after Nashville school shooting

A celebration of the nine-year-old’s life hears how even the tragedy of her death has brought ‘so much good and love’ to a community shaken by America’s latest school shooting. Sheila Flynn reports from Nashville

The Independent UK

Mourners gather for 1st Nashville school shooting funeral

Family and friends of Evelyn Dieckhaus, one of three children who were killed in a school shooting in Nashville this week, remembered her as a “shining light” and said farewell to a girl who loved art, music, animals and snuggling with her older sister

WEKU

At a Nashville hospital, the agony of not being able to help school shooting victims

A pediatric surgeon and his colleagues at Vanderbilt University Medical Center had prepared for a mass casualty event, but the victims of Monday's shooting had already died by the time they arrived.

The Independent UK

Don Jr shares tweet claiming Trump indictment is an effort to distract from Nashville school shooting

‘Funny how they all of a sudden care about victims of school shootings’

Dublin Live

Conor McGregor hires armed guard to protect kids over US school shooting fears

The MMA star says he has had his children at school in America while living in Las Vegas in recent weeks to film the latest series of the UFC's The Ultimate Fighter

Irish Mirror

Conor McGregor hires armed guard for his kids over US school shooting fears

The UFC star says he has had his children at school in America while living in Las Vegas in recent weeks

The Independent UK

Nashville school shooting – live: Audrey Hale’s ‘stalkerish’ behaviour revealed as victims’ funerals held

Protesters flood Tennessee State Capitol on Thursday demanding lawmakers take action on guns

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