Thousands of Tennessee students walked out of classes Monday to march on the state Capitol exactly a week after six people — including three young kids — were murdered in the Nashville …
At least one lawmaker, state Senator Charlane Oliver, supported the protests, holding up her own sign reading: “Protect kids not guns.” She later hailed the event as
“Guns are weapons of mass destruction, especially AR 15’s which needs to be banned,” he said, according to the local outlet.“Don’t ban books. Ban the idiotic, white supremacist, right-wing ignorance,” he said, getting cheers for blaming toxic masculinity and transphobia for the transgender shooter’s deadly spree.
“It’s not drag queens, it’s not books, it’s not Black history, it’s not trans rights — GUNS are KILLING KIDS,” theThe walk out and rally were organized by March for Our Lives.During the rally, the group said it was “determined to be the LAST ‘lockdown generation.
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