The president will meet with the three Tennessee lawmakers who faced expulsion votes after participating in protests over last month’s school shooting in Nashville.
explicitly on guns despite the extended presence of hundreds of students, parents and teachers calling for an assault weapons ban and other measures.
The March 27 shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville left three children and three staff members dead.while acknowledging that it was well short of what he has advocated.The law provided funding for mental health services and school security initiatives, expanded criminal background checks for some gun buyers, barred a larger group of domestic-violence offenders from purchasing firearms and funded programs that would allow authorities to seize guns from troubled individuals.
It did not include a reinstatement of a ban on assault weapons, which Biden has urged Congress to pass over the past year. Jones told media in Tennessee that he will ask Biden to declare a public health emergency related to gun violence. “I think that we need emergency response [because] we’re facing a crisis situation,” he said, according to. “In states like ours, we need 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. That’s all they passed this session.
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