Gun Control (becasue it gets buried in other politics)

[easye]

Tennessee Legislature is voting to expel 3 Democratic lawmakers who disrupted the House Floor business to push for better gun control laws in the wake of the Nashville shootings:

TN lawmakers could be expelled after video released at meeting last week

www.fox13memphis.com/news/tn-lawmakers-could-be-expelled-after-video-released-at-meeting-last-week/article_a57fe4b4-d298-11ed-9efd-a758961e80d8.html

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Bringing disorder and violating House rules.

Those are just two of the reasons that Republican representatives are using to try to expel Memphis representative Justin J. Pearson and two of his fellow Democrats.

FOX13 spoke to him soon after Monday’s vote to move forward with a hearing.

“What we have is the silencing of the voice of the minority – two young Black lawmakers, one of two only woman democratic lawmakers in the state of Tennessee are right now being politically lynched by the white super-majority Republic legislature and it’s wrong,” he said via Zoom.

This was just moments after an initial vote to expel him and two other Democratic state representatives.

That vote became very heated on the house floor.

This all goes back to last week, when representatives Pearson, Justin Jones from Nashville, and Gloria Johnson from Knoxville led the charge to take the House floor and ask for stricter gun laws in our state.

And they did not come peacefully.

There was chanting, there were signs saying ‘protect kids, not guns’, and now, three different Republican leaders are asking for the three to be expelled for disrupting the House floor session and – what they say – was bringing disorder and violating House rules.

This surge on the House floor came days after the deadly shooting inside a Nashville elementary school that killed six people including three children.

This is the same Legislature that recently banned Drag Queens in the state......

[semipotentwalrus]

For context, it is my understanding that previous expulsions have been for felonies and for literal treason.

[easye]

So follow-up, the two young black men were expelled in TN, but the old, former teacher white woman got to stay by 1 vote.

[easye]

Also, in the words of another poster here..... reset the clock!

www.npr.org/live-updates/louisville-kentucky-downtown-shooting

Louisville shooting live updates: Five people killed, six injured in gunfire an at downtown bank

[easye]

Update: The shooter was a 23 year old, white man who was a former bank employee using a "rifle". The man had recently been let go from his job.

4 killed included the Senior VP of the bank, who was 63 and a friend of the Governor of Kentucky. IIRC all those killed were 40+ years old.

[adurot]

Apparently the shooter was a radical left terrorist, the evidence of which was the inclusion of he/him in his bio.

[easye]

Sounds like the shooter also live streamed the attack to Insta, and the entire attack took less than a minute to unfold.

Horrifying.

[easye]

Reset the clock.....

www.npr.org/2023/04/16/1170295326/at-least-4-people-were-killed-in-a-shooting-at-teens-birthday-party-in-alabama

4 were killed and 28 injured in a shooting at a teen's birthday party in Alabama

Four people were killed and 28 others were injured, some critically, in a shooting at a birthday party on Saturday night in the city of Dadeville, Ala., authorities said.

I am sure this will spur..... I just can't even anymore......

[crispy78]

Fucks sake. Black teenager shot (luckily not fatally) for having the temerity to ring on someone's doorbell, after going to the wrong address to pick up his younger brothers from their friends house. Old bastard who shot him released without charge.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/17/black-kansas-city-teen-shot-wrong-address

[adurot]

Apr 18, 2023 3:48:04 GMT -5 crispy78 said:

Fucks sake. Black teenager shot (luckily not fatally) for having the temerity to ring on someone's doorbell, after going to the wrong address to pick up his younger brothers from their friends house. Old bastard who shot him released without charge.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/17/black-kansas-city-teen-shot-wrong-address

Mm. They look to have been playing it by the book. There was an investigation to determine exactly What to charge him with, and they couldn’t hold him without having yet charged him. They’ve since announced charges and issued a warrant for his arrest.

[Disciple of Fate]

Bit of a similar case the same day. Women pulled into the wrong driveway in the dark, resident opened fire on the car and killed one of them.

www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65307556

Police at least moved faster in this case. She was white though.

[skyth]

Keep on banging the drum about needing guns to protect yourself because of all the bad people out there and then you wonder why stuff like this happens.

[crispy78]

I just can't get my head round the level of entitlement, where these people are prepared to commit cold-blooded murder without warning for such trivial issues as ringing on their door or accidentally pulling into their driveway. I hope their actions torment them for the rest of their lives, but sadly I suspect they won't. Well, maybe the guy who killed the nice white girl might feel a few pangs...

[easye]

I just can not understand always living in that level of fear of other people. It can not be good for your mental health.

[Disciple of Fate]

Well, some media like to whip their viewers into a frenzy about violent crime and air horror stories because it works in drawing viewers. Wouldn't be surprised if that plays a role in these events, even though crime has generally decreased over the years.