because, quite frankly, until we change our leadership and get some people with some real backbone in there, it s not going to change. there s going to be no meaningful law change in tennessee from this that i can see. it s heartbreaking. yeah, it is heartbreaking. everything about this, representative freeman, is heartbreaking. what s also heartbreaking is those people that you were talking about, they could have been with you. they could have seen everything. they just wouldn t have cared. they really wouldn t have cared. i talk to these people. i know these people. they just don t care. they have this twisted view of hyper individualism, where america is all about their hyper individualistic rights and no responsibilities. no responsibilities are linked to that. some people pushing back on doing what i do, and what i m sure you and other responsible gun owners do, and make sure that our guns are locked up even in our own house. we make sure that everybody
of a 10-year-old, right in the same age range, i can t even begin to imagine what that felt like. i was just watching the videos before this came on of the shooter breaking into the school. it s just terrifying, heartbreaking, angering. here in tennessee, we ve we actually, instead of restricting guns, we actually continue to expand them. we ve got a serious problem, and we know it. we re just afraid to do anything about it. so, representative freeman, can you talk a little bit about the gun laws in the state of tennessee? most of the country isn t familiar with the particulars of it. what do you think might be done in your legislature to prevent something like this from happening again? i think red flag laws would be a great first start, to identify somebody in crisis. flag them, allow law enforcement to step in, to try to do something about it. to extend the waiting period, to
high likelihood that, uh, one of their friends or acquaintance was was was one of the injured and or deceased? um, all across our city tonight at dinner. we re going to have some tough conversations with our kids and the echo what senator campbell said, uh, try to make them understand why we continue to have these things when we have opportunities to stop it. and um elected officials don t have the courage to do it. representative freeman on that question, something that popped out at me . reportedly governor bill lee last year in june of 2022 following the massacre, and you ve aldi signed an executive order to harden schools to actually try to prevent the very thing that we are witnessing today. and yet that executive order included no new gun restrictions. was that a mistake? uh i think it s clearly a mistake. you know, we continue
i m also curious to get your perspective on one of the common aspects of the shooting. typically when we discuss these all too often horrific crimes, the shooter is a male and he s typically, uh, in his early twenties and not a teenager. in this case. this was a 28 year old. adult woman. what does that say to you? i honestly don t know. but i think like you i was shocked and when? when i heard that it was a 28 year old woman, actually, um, assumed it would follow the typical playbook of you know that 22 late. email um i hope this is this is a one off. we don t see more of this. that would actually more of this period. no one wants to see any more of this will recover it far too frequently. ah! representative freeman. what was your reaction when you heard
Rape kit tracking bill moving to House Finance Committee
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) A sexual assault kit bill that’s making its way through the state capitol aims to help sexual assault victims in Tennessee track the status of their rape kits.
The bill allows for law enforcement and victims of rape and sexual assault to track their rape kits.
State Representative Bob Freeman (D – Davidson County) is one of the lawmakers working to pass the Jim Coley Rape Survivor Protection Act.
“It’s time. It’s time for us to modernize this process,” Rep. Freeman said. “The TBI has done a great job up to this point, but we need to give them the authority to modernize this process. ”