Tenn. State Rep. Justin Jones: ‘Morally Insane’ to Allow Teachers to Carry Concealed Guns

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JONES: "This bill is morally insane because a year after a mass shooting took the lives of three 9-year-olds and three adults, this is the response of my Republican colleagues, not to pass red flag laws, not to pass universal background checks or a ban on assault weapons, not safe storage law, but to expand firearms and put more guns in the schools when the teachers of my district, the teachers of Tennessee are saying, 'We want to be armed with supplies and books and fair pay, not with firearms.' I mean, this bill is insanity. And it just goes to show that we are working with a Republican supermajority here in Tennessee that puts the lives of our children beneath the campaign contributions of the gun industry. That is morally insane. That is shameful. That is unacceptable. And what we saw yesterday was people drug out of the gallery begging them, 'Please don’t do this,' mothers and teachers and students and clergy crying, saying, 'Do not do this, you have blood on your hands,' and they were drug out of the House chamber because the Republican speaker did not want to hear the voices of the people of Tennessee, the vast majority of whom, Republican, independent and Democrat, oppose this immoral, extreme bill."