work of gun prevention that is necessary in places across our communities, including in memphis and millington. my district very quickly if you are reinstated. would you engage in the type of behavior that republicans say they expelled you for? would you demonstrate again like you did on the house floor? i believe that our actions were wholly justified and that even though we broke a rule of decorum, we stood up and we spoke for people who needed us to speak for them. voices of children and adults who will never be able to speak again. and so i believe what we did was right. and it was four right and that we have a responsibility now and our legislators in this legislature legislator now need to do more to stop and in gun violence. it is preventable and we aren t doing nearly enough. would you break the rules of decorum again to make that point? sometimes rules have to be broken in order for the people who ve been pushed to the periphery to be brought to the center of the conversation.
violence. it is a sad and another tragic day in our country where we know the decisions of people in power. decisions of people who could actually do something to prevent gun violence in our schools in our banks in our communities by preventing guns from getting in the hands of individuals who have them. the people in positions of power are refusing to act and it is a tragedy that that is our reality. and at the same time we re seeing people who are pleading for democracy to work. the people at nashville metro council people in shelby county that the county commission our communities are pleading for democracy to work in order that we might be able to affect the change that we need. and so, yes, it is. it is multiple emotions celebration and of the determination of the people who want to see justice happened with representative jones being receded and it also painful moment of recognition that our legislators and people like cameron sexton and the republican party in tennessee and acro
the hands of individuals who have them. the people in positions of power are refusing to act and it is a tragedy that that is our reality. and at the same time we re seeing people who are pleading for democracy to work. the people and nashville metro council people in shelby county, the county commission, our communities are pleading for democracy to work in order that we might be able to affect the change that we need. and so, yes, it is. it is multiple emotions celebration and of the determination of the people who want to see justice happened with representative jones being receded and it also painful moment of recognition that our legislators and people like cameron sexton and the republican party in tennessee and across the south in this country are not doing nearly enough to prevent guns from getting in the hands of people and doing all of the holistic work of gun prevention that is necessary. meanwhile the mother of the six year old virginia student who shot his teacher in janua
legislature not just in virginia but across the nation get serious about gun control prevention, we re going to continue to have these same kind of mass shootings. it doesn t matter if you re in a school, whether you re in a church, in a walmart. wherever you are. sooner or later one of these mass shooters will come to your area, because we have not the will to do what is necessary to bring gun control, gun prevention, gun violence prevention under control, and i m just upset that here we ve gone through how many mass shootings here in virginia and we have a legislature that adjourned a couple years ago, a mass shooting in virginia beach. had an opportunity to bring forward some common sense gun prevention measures, and we didn t do it, but, of course, one of the things that did come out of it was, i introduced a bill about universal gun, background checks and even that s not enough. we need to do more to beef up