issue where you have the due process protections that gun rights advocates want. but you also have the ability to take firearms away from somebody after going through those due process protections who is a threat to themselves or others whose showing clear signs of that and that s something. i think that progress could probably be made on. and what about other items? i mean, one thing that ryan mentioned in our conversation with him in the last hours, universal background checks. it s an issue that has you know, some 80 85% of americans approving that? why? why can t we get? why can t this country get to the finish line on that? what about an assault weapon ban? you re seeing states washington state, for example, going down the road of an assault weapon ban. what about raising the age to buy an ar 15 or all of those things off the table? as far as you re concerned? well you know, i think those issues are some of the ones that have been the sticking points for 30 years, right? these are
obviously you could tell it s complete shock from the mother. but most mothers are shocked when their kids wind up doing this course. of course. i know this is a totally futile question. but i m going to ask it because maybe something has shaken loose on capitol hill. when something like this happens . do they talk about it? do they talk about having a meeting? do they talk about to the politicians talk about what are we going to do now? i mean, i think you often just say kind people kind of retreat into their corners, with democrats saying we need stronger gun restrictions. we need assault weapons bans. that s something biden calls for. over and over, and republicans say no. we need more investments in in mental health and trying to go that route. um but we had the shooting monday, the week before nashville and it just doesn t seem like anything is really shaking the conversation loose when it comes to gun control up on capitol hill. you know, biden has said he has done everything tha
Is this who we want to be? People complained about sending their children to school wearing the masks that were required at the height of the COVID pandemic. How will
weapons ban again? yeah. we ve been calling for assault weapons bans for years now and we ve been calling for other measures that we know are proven and work and especially in states like tennessee that has some of the loosest gun control legislation in the entire nation, but also the highest level of gun related deaths, we ve been calling for these common sense measures that just like you said have been proven to work countless times but just like brynn said, the thing standing in the way is plain and simple, it s lawmakers who are self serving their own interests and who are backed by nra-funded money and who are more interested in engaging in culture wars and claiming that things that are actually vital to our communities, such as banning drag or gender-affirming care for children or books, what we need to protect children instead of the thing that kills every single day engaging in these culture wars, rather than the war that is on our communities everyday is a blatant disgrace t
candidates who are gonna sav the of it and gun safe candidates i can tell you that when i initially was elected in 2019, just to shift and the cultur change around how we approac comment sense gun legislation, we are not trying to tak anyone s guns. but american peopl overwhelmingly agree that re flag laws and background check and now even assault weapons bans are things that we should at least be debating on th floor and calling to a vote. the do nothing is just unconscionable i think what we are going to see is more people because lik i said, that is what motivated me after parkland, having lived through a school shooting when my students were asking me after noon, mess why is this happening and why at the adult doing anything when i heard the secretary o education floating the idea of arming teachers, as that i v had enough, i cannot wait for legislator to fix this for me. i have to enter th conversation, be part of the