Tennessee Republicans have passed a bill loosening gun laws just three weeks after a shooter killed six people, including three 9-year-olds, at a private school in Nashville.
“We need to do more to protect citizens from gun violence than the people making the guns that people can use to kill more people,” Lamar said.There are people that we should be going out of way to protect this week. And we’ve been receiving emails and calls, people are holding up signs, telling us to go out of our way to help those people. Not one of those signs says to protect the gun manufacturers.
from the children’s hospital to the state Capitol building. Voices for a Safer Tennessee, which helped organize the action, demanded that lawmakers take action to regulate gun ownership. “This is not a political issue. It’s a public safety issue,” the organization said. “By coming together as one, unified voice, we can channel our sorrow into action and advocacy for stronger gun safety measures.”
Many progressives have called for gun laws that hold gun manufacturers and sellers liable, rather than focusing on ownership restrictions, which law enforcement often uses to criminalize marginalized communities. Ramsin Canon, a Chicago-based civil rights attorney, explained the importance of targeting gun manufacturers
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