Posted on 04/09/2023 7:57:05 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Republicans in the Tennessee legislature reached a new political low on Thursday with their decision to expel two Black members for having participated in an anti-gun protest following the March 27 deaths of three children and three adults in a Nashville Christian school mass shooting. As if blind to the racial implications, lawmakers voted narrowly to let a white House member keep her seat after she participated in the same protest. Tennesseeans are holding high-profile protests to put much-needed pressure on lawmakers to stop sidestepping the significance of school mass shootings.
Apparently, the protests inside the Tennessee House chamber hit a nerve. Referring to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection in Washington, state Republican House Speaker Cameron Sexton went so far as to say the protest “was equivalent, at least equivalent, maybe worse depending on how you look at it, of doing an insurrection in the Capitol.”
Republican reaction to mass shootings, including those involving small children, has become easily predictable, as if recited from a National Rifle Association boilerplate script: First, hearts go out to the victims and their families. Oh-so-sincere thoughts and prayers. But remember that guns don’t kill people. Don’t forget the Second Amendment! What’s really needed is greater attention to mental health, not more gun restrictions.
That’s precisely the “business as normal” that Pearson was talking about. Did the protesters go too far in seizing the House chamber? Probably. But the only two previous expulsions from the Tennessee legislature since the Civil War were for blatant offenses involving sexual misconduct and bribe-taking. Pearson and Jones were merely judged by their colleagues to have brought “disorder and dishonor” on the House.
But in these hyper-partisan times, when Republicans seem desperate to make anything and everything look worse than the Capitol insurrection, that’s apparently enough.
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DNC Media liars gonna lie like the Democrat stooges that they are.
That’s a great picture of three piles of scum right there. It shows how small they really are. Exploiting the murders of six people to pimp their commie agenda.
Ignorant liberals reach new low as they continue to falsely claim that the Jan 6 protests were an Insurrection!
Throw their butts into the
Warsaw D.C Gulag ,
sans charges, bail, or trial date , indefinitely.
Or is it only obstruction and insurrection when conservatives do things ?
Yep using a loudhailer on the floor is the epitome of decorum.
Free speech does not mean shouting others down or inviting radicals to join in the chorus. That’s not debate - that’s a shouting match - hardly how laws are properly made.
Those radical people could join Ilhan Omar in a one way trip back to their favorite homeland
Repreobates say what?
St. Louis Dispatch needs to stay in its lane.
They should have taken down the white woman as well. Also where the republican are equating it to Jan6th is giving credibility to the BS incarcerations and calling it an insurrection. So for that they are WRONG.
Turnabout is FairPlay.
ThIs IsNt ThE sAmE At AlL! wHeN wE dO iT wErE rIgHtInG wRoNgS! wHeN yOu Do It Ur FaScIsTs!
“Did the protesters go too far in seizing the House chamber? Probably.”
Gosh, that’s big of them to concede that point.
The story was written by a true insurrectionist.
Because, like the First Amendment, the Second Amendment is a cornerstone to the Constitution.
Without both, the Constitution is worthless. Anyone who must have an explanation as to why is mentally incapable of understanding the explanation.
>>>Did the protesters go too far in seizing the House chamber? Probably.<<<
By Democrat’s own standards, their behavior was insurrection. They were treated quite mercifully considering the severe jail sentences for J6 protesters.
Protect the mass murderer of children, blame it on guns
They want us to take this accusation seriously? “January 6th is the worst attack on our democracy since 9/11, the Civil War”. Please, spare me.
Funny how they never mention the 5 Puerto Rican terroists who shot up The Capitol in 1954, wounding 5 Congressmen.
So say the leftist editorial board of a St. Louis fishwrap.
Meantime a story you will never read in this “newspaper”
“St. Louis has the highest per capita crime cost out of 263 U.S. cities, making it the most dangerous domestic destination for tourist”
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