use of guns, so that we ca have a responsible community around guns. tennessee has one of the highest rates of gun violenc in the country you are more likely to die b guns than anything else righ now, if you are a child. that is a catastrophe to me, that s something that needs to be solved and needs to b solved now they don t want to do anything about, it so we need to have educated folks, like representative justin jones an representative justin pearson, who s challenges what you want to do, you want to flex your power and show your fragility, and take them out of office. we ve never seen anything like this in the country. i should just note, according to cdc data from 2020, the most recent tennessee ninth worst state for gu deaths per capita in the union so it s obviously an acute problem there in tennessee, as you said, senator. sherrilyn, the point about what s next in due process seems important, from a sort o democratic, multi democratic constitutional way i mean, there doesn
even really about the rules. it s about you basically makin this sort of spectacle while you know, the bodies are not yet buried i mean, basically that, i mean you actually had explici admission on the floor today from republicans saying, thi is not about the quorum, is no about the rules, we all know why we are here. and i got to think that, t your point, harry, about tryin to litigate this or trying t say it was about a violation o the rules, when you have someone actually sitting on th floor, and - every single time i ve ever tried to trigger this, it been because, you know, sexual assault violations, taking bribes, you know, real sort of stuff, and you know, we ve see it plenty of times, includin in the national legislature, members acting up a bit, making, you know, making trouble, et cetera that s part of their first
that we are that is better than the presen that we currently have [inaudible anything else you want to say? we will keep fighting for people in nashville, in memphis, across the state of tennessee, and across the united states o america, who want justice. we deserve it. this is our birthright, ou inheritance is not just some pieces of paper in constitutions and rules. it s the advocacy and th willingness to protest for what s right, to create and to advocate for laws tha make justice more possible and so, that s what we re goin to do. thank you, sir. god bless you that is justin pearson, he one of the representatives tha was expelled today, along with justin jones and other representative, another as he, said young black man elected b the constituents and voters in their district to represen them in the house and no expelled by that same house. the choice of those individual in those districts rejected by the overwhelmingly white majority of the republican caucus in the