the road. hang on. hey soft! mr mr. clark please stop clock. mr. wendell, please. that is that is not appropriate. the suspension of the rules. request mr clerk. can we just go back? over what what that was. one second one second. alright, we re gonna. be watching the proceedings here just to bring people up to speed state representative gloria johnson. ah again born just like a former state representative jones, not born in tennessee, moved to tennessee to go to college. he went to university of tennessee at knoxville became an activist more traditional path for her knox county democratic party chairwoman and then elected to the tennessee house, which includes knoxville. tennessee um and she and two of her colleagues in the wake of that horrific covenant school shooting christian school were three little babies, 39 year olds and three students, three faculty and staff were murdered. by a disturbed individual. um she took to the floor and disruptive manner that was made me th
reason does any reasonable person have to have an assault rifle? there are only intended to kill people and police officers. and yet we have folks who are beholden to the n r. a folks who are beholden to gun lobbyists like the tennessee firearms association, folks who don t care about the children that we ve lost. don t care about the classmates we lost. don t care about the people in our communities that we lose every single day when we turn on the news because they rather support a status quote that kills us, then do the work of justice of creating legislation that helps to save us would be your message to the speaker of the house. today the speaker of the house is leading an undemocratic institution. he is leading a political lynching of people who have already been persecuted for being women for being black for being young, gifted and talented. the speaker of the house is a problem in the state of tennessee, and he is not a dictator. he is not like god, as representative jones said