channeling energy and an outpouring that is the essence of democracy and is the essence of what makes this country great and my hat is off to him. and i think you re going to see your you re gonna you re starting to see some seismic shifts. and i hope they reverberate. we ll see just remarkable day remarkable few days for him as well. we ll see what happens with justin pearson s vote on wednesday. thank you for joining us tonight . cnn tonight with alison camerata starts right now. good evening, everyone. i m alison camerata. welcome to cnn tonight . the ousted tennessee state. rep. justin jones tonight is reinstated. he was just expelled on thursday for protesting inside the chamber and demanding action on gun reform after that school shooting in nashville that killed 39 year olds and three adults. today we re setting a resounding message that democracy will not be killed in the comfort of silence. then this morning, yet another mass shooting a 25 year old gunman opened fire
spurned excellent, all of these things that happen make these things that seem like we can actually do something. it s very , very hard to do that, mostly because of the constitutional issue, as you were saying. but but also that there s all these other things, too, that you know , you know, or abridging people s first mental right? and until you were bridge that in the court, it makes it makes it rather difficult. but i totally understand what you re saying. it s not that you re numb to it. we have to turn away for it for our mental health. you know that the idea that you can choose to read it or not read it. of course you can t read every about every single mass shooting j. when we become numb, we dollar moral instincts, right. we dull our human capacities for compassion and for care, and for empathy, and these are the capacity. is which enable us to live together across the various divides that we have, so it s incredibly worrying, in addition to the tragedy of the gun violence itse