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I think that we need an emergency response because we’re facing a crisis situation … we need the help from our national leaders because we’re in a state where the only action that our colleagues took in response to the mass shooting in Nashville was to expel the two youngest Black lawmakers and then to pass a law to protect gun manufacturers.
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Today we are sending a resounding message that democracy will not be killed in the comfort of silence, today we send a clear message to Speaker (of the House) Cameron Sexton that the people will not allow his crimes against democracy to happen without challenge.
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What happened was a travesty of democracy because they expelled the two youngest Black lawmakers, which is no coincidence from the Tennessee Legislature.
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It was about who they were representing. It’s about whose voices they were channeling. Understand that – and is that not what a democracy allows?
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Rather than address the issue of banning assault weapons, my former colleagues, a Republican supermajority, are assaulting democracy, and that should scare all of us across the nation.
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They thought they won today, but they don’t realize what they started, they started a movement they can’t stop.
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I represent 78,000 people, and when I came to the well that day, I was not standing for myself, i was standing for those young people … many of whom can’t even vote yet, many of whom are disenfranchised. But all of whom are terrified by the continued trend of mass shooting plaguing our state and plaguing this nation.
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We called for you all to ban assault weapons, and you respond with an assault on democracy.
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