U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris made a last-minute trip Friday to Tennessee where she called for tougher firearm laws and criticized the Republican-controlled state House.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris made a last-minute trip Friday to Tennessee where she called for tougher firearm laws and criticized the Republican-controlled state House, which a day earlier expelled two Black Democratic lawmakers for their role in a protest calling for more gun control following a school shooting in Nashville.
Harris met privately with Jones, Pearson and Johnson, as well as with other elected officials and young people advocating for tougher gun control laws. Nashville Metro Councilperson Zulfat Suara addressed the crowd before Harris arrived, saying the expulsions "tell us exactly what we need to know about how the state views young Black men" standing up for what they believe. Evoking the city's civil rights history, she said, "Just like John Lewis and Diane Nash did many years ago, we too will resist."President Joe Biden has called their expulsions "shocking, undemocratic, and without precedent.
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