{"id":1916785,"date":"2023-04-19T15:26:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T19:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-depth-nashville-shooting-sparks-gun-control-debate-in-tennessee-legislature\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T15:29:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T19:29:04","slug":"in-depth-nashville-shooting-sparks-gun-control-debate-in-tennessee-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-depth-nashville-shooting-sparks-gun-control-debate-in-tennessee-legislature\/","title":{"rendered":"IN-DEPTH: Nashville Shooting Sparks Gun Control Debate in Tennessee Legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fin-depth-nashville-shooting-sparks-gun-control-debate-in-tennessee-legislature%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1916785&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0418\/0fdd5ae3-de01-4e7f-a78a-15bfe55eb3e5\/audio.mp3?length=3858669&#038;duration=322\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>As the Tennessee Legislature gaveled into session on April 17\u2014with discussion of arming teachers on the agenda\u2014a mother whose son attends The Covenant School, where three children and three staff members were murdered in a shooting on March 27, gave a harrowing account of how the tragedy affected her and her children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last three weeks have been deeply painful. Our days are spent hearing children as young as 3 years old describe in horrific detail what they saw and heard,\u201d said Sarah Neumann, holding back tears. \u201cThird graders saw the dead bodies of their friends, not just coffins\u2014their classmates. They sat in those rooms, shielded by their teachers, with bullets flying over them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neumann\u2019s 5-year-old son, Noah, attends The Covenant School, and also has a 2-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI texted our preschool moms thread \u2018active shooter at Covenant,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cI could barely type the words, my body was shaking. At that moment, that innocent moms text thread was forever changed from a place that we shared pictures and reminded each other of dress up days, to now coping through trauma and things parents should never have to discuss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soon after, she met up with her family at a reunification site at a nearby church to be with the Covenant community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy dad drove an hour to get the kids so they wouldn\u2019t witness any more agony, but not before the first mom was told her kid was gone,\u201d she said. \u201cThose screams and sorrowing wails\u2014I worked in pediatric oncology for 13 years, I held kids in my arms as they died way too many times\u2014nothing compared to the scream of that mom.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5164768\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/03\/31\/id5164768-Child-moves-toward-memorial-at-Covenant-memorial-1200x900.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> A young girl moves toward the items left in front of the photo of Hallie Scruggs, one of three 9-year-olds killed along with school staff in the March 27 shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tenn. (Chase Smith\/The Epoch Times)<\/figure>\n<p>She said she walked in the school the other day and saw the bullet holes and the spots where the bodies of the students and staff members had lain. She said classrooms looked like they were frozen in time, with March 27 still written on the boards.<\/p>\n<h2>Gun Control Activists<\/h2>\n<p>The march where Neumann spoke on April 17 was a part of \u201cMoral Monday,\u201d a political demonstration in which protesters took to the streets of Nashville to call upon the state Legislature to ban \u201cassault weapons\u201d in Tennessee and to vote against legislation to arm teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Scores of people participated in Nashville\u2019s \u201cMoral Monday,\u201d a political demonstration that first started in North Carolina a decade ago by Bishop William Barber II. Nashville\u2019s event included marchers carrying adult and children\u2019s caskets to the state Capitol, speeches outside of the Capitol, and eventually some entering the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Those caskets were not allowed by Tennessee State Troopers into the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Justin Jones, one of two Democrats expelled from the House for causing disorder while calling for gun control days after the shooting, brought the smallest casket into the capitol and attempted to bring it into the House chamber as it was already in session.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just trying to get back into the chamber with a child\u2019s casket to represent the policies of this body and we were locked out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Jones said the clergy came in the \u201cthousands\u201d from across the nation to \u201cgive moral witness to what\u2019s happening\u201d in the Tennessee Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThousands of clergy \u2026 are here today praying and asking us to do something about these children who are being killed in our streets,\u201d Jones continued. \u201cI hope, Mr. Speaker, that casket that\u2019s sitting out of there will send a clear message about what is happening in this body. We are perpetuating policies of death.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3901423\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/07\/14\/GettyImages-609774824_web-1200x750.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Rev<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Tennessee Legislature gaveled into session on April 17\u2014with discussion of arming teachers on the agenda\u2014a mother whose son attends The Covenant School, where three children and three staff members were murdered in a shooting on March 27, gave a harrowing account of how the tragedy affected her and her children. \u201cThe last three<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1627,"featured_media":1916786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[4154,3896,7012,24405,4199,14582,4300,5914,6651],"class_list":["post-1916785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-control","tag-debate","tag-gun","tag-in-depth","tag-legislature","tag-nashville","tag-shooting","tag-sparks","tag-tennessee"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1916786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}