Justin Jones, Justin Pearson, and Gloria Johnson will meet with President Joe Biden to discuss gun reform. The three held a gun control protest on the Tennessee House floor after the deadly school shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville.
Justin Jones, Justin Pearson, and Gloria Johnson will meet with President Joe Biden to continue a conversation about gun reform.
The three held a gun control protest on the House floor on behalf of protesters demanding stricter gun laws following the deadly school shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville. The GOP-led House then expelled the two youngest Black Democratic lawmakers, while Johnson kept her seat by one vote. Local leaders thenreinstated Jonesand Pearson back at the State House on an interim basis until a special election could be held."They had a conversation. He thanked them for speaking out and standing their ground, and being very clear about what's needed to protect their communities. And he invited them here to continue that conversation," said White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
Jones said he’ll be asking the president to declare a public health emergency when it comes to gun violence."I think that we need emergency response because we’re facing a crisis situation. 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 manufactures.
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