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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“St. Louis Dispatch needs to stay in its lane.”
Did you read the comment section? Major leftys.
Next time bring guns.
Parading, interrupting an official proceeding, armed with a deadly megaphone that could be wielded at a moments notice! Yep that was an insurrection.
Why hasn’t Gloria Johnson been expelled?
great post! :)
FU St. Louis Post.
That’s some objective and unbiased journalism right there. Embrace the suck, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The complete lack of intellect on the St Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board is absolutely astounding.
Libtards reached new low comparing protest to insurrection and ignoring rights of the accused
They can suck it
The media is GONE, nothing more than an extension of the democrat party.
Dont listen to the media AND VOTE DEMOCRATS OUT !!!
Far worse.
st louis post disgrace is fake news.
The good ole post disgrace getting it wrong every day!
Oh well. Break house decorum and civility and lets see what happens.
Oh snap!
You get 86’d.
Fact: Marxist Demonrats incited a riot inside the TN Capitol. This article is nothing but lies.
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