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Some men are morally opposed to violence They are protected by those who are not. Your able to speak out and live free because brave men risked and lost there lives to give us what we have freedom and that was accomplish by the barrel of a gun protect our second amendment it came at a great cost
They leave out so many details lol.
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If you’ve seen any news you’ve probably seen by now that three democrat members of the Tennessee House of Representatives were accused of breaking the rules of The House. Two were expelled, one was not. The accusation made against them was that on March 30 Justin Jones, Gloria Johnson, and Justin Pearson went to the well of the House chamber while they were in session without being called, and with bullhorn in hand began chanting and screaming because they had exceeded their allotted time in a gun control debate and wanted to keep speaking.
House members passed a resolution to call a hearing and a vote to decide whether or not to expel the three members for their blatant disregard for the rules of decorum within the House chambers while in session. On April 6 that hearing was held. Each of the three representatives were allowed to make an opening statement to explain their actions, then answer questions from the other members of The House, followed by a closing statement. The three members were allowed to be cross examined and allowed to present video evidence from that day.
A vote was held after each member was afforded this opportunity. Two of the three, Justin Jones, and Justin Pearson were expelled. Gloria Johnson was not. In typical leftist fashion, Democrats are claiming that racism was the deciding factor because Gloria Johnson is white while Justin Jones and Justin Pearson are black. The real reason is far from that. Here are the facts of what happened during that hearing.
First, Justin Jones was called to the well to make his statement. Doing his best to sound like a 1960s civil rights activist, Jones went on a 20 minute tirade claiming that he was being lynched, that white people and Donald Trump are the reason for gun violence in America, and that he did nothing wrong when he rushed the house floor with two of his colleagues and used a bullhorn to drown out the objections of the other representatives. During the question phase he was allowed to show a video of that incident which confirmed that he used a bullhorn to shout over the other members. After this Jones repeated many of his race baiting remarks during his closing statement. A vote was held and a tally of 72-25 resulted in his expulsion.
Next Gloria Johnson was called to the well. During her opening statement Johnson read the names of the six people killed in the Nashville school shooting. She then accepted responsibility for going to the well without being called and apologized. She refuted the claim that she was shouting over other members of the House. The video previously shown confirmed this as she mostly just stood there with Jones and Pearson. During questioning and in her closing remarks she made the case, humbly, that while her actions were wrong she hoped the body of the house could understand her motive and she left it at that. After another vote The House narrowly failed by a single vote to reach a 2/3 majority at 65-30 and she was allowed to remain.
Finally Justin Pearson was called to the well. During questioning Representative Sabi "Doc" Kumar attempted to strike a conciliatory tone. Offering a verbal olive branch to Pearson, acknowledging the frustration one has when they feel their voice isn't being heard, but that his actions had not only been disruptive, they had silenced the voices of the other members. He recalled a time when Pearson had come to him personally after a committee meeting, called him a racial slur and stormed off. Kumar asked that Pearson make an effort to conduct himself not as an activist, but as a representative of the people of his district. This fell on Pearson with deaf ears. In similar fashion to Jones during his opening and closing statements, Pearson attempted to conjure the same activist tone and went on another long tirade also blaming white people for gun violence, accepting no responsibility, showing no remorse, and even went so far as to make the assertion that the reason for his actions was because Ronald Reagan had been killing his people by sending cocaine into black neighborhoods. A final vote was held and Pearson was also expelled with a tally of 69-26.
Several times during those proceedings The Speaker of The House had to make calls to order due to the disruptive shouting and screaming coming from the gallery. At one point he had to issue a final warning that the gallery would be cleared if they could not remain quiet during the proceedings. At the conclusion of this hearing, The House adjourned until the following Monday.
The next day every Democrat, including Gloria Johnson, and every leftist talk show host claimed that "white supremacist and racist" republicans expelled two members of the Tennessee House of Representatives just because they were black. None of the facts above have been mentioned since the April 6th hearing.
The real reason Johnson was allowed to stay and the others weren’t, was a clear lack of remorse, gaslighting, and blame shifting on the part of Jones and Pearson, while Johnson accepted responsibility and apologized with humility. The only racism in any of this has come from Jones and Pearson, who have blamed white people for their own inability to follow the rules and conduct themselves like adults rather than petulant children throwing a tantrum because they didn’t get their way.
Maybe they were expelled for inciting the insurrection? It's pretty obvious.
GUN VIOLENCE.
JUST LIKE AIDS AND CHARLIE MANSON,
NOTHING WILL HAPPEN UNTIL PEOPLE WITH MONEY AND INFLUENCE ARE AFFECTED BY GUN VIOLENCE WITH MASS SHOOTERS.
WHEN MASS SHOOTERS ACT OUT ON EVENTS WHERE PEOPLE WITH MONEY AND INFLUENCE LIKE TO CONGREGATE, WILL THEY TAKE ACTION FOR EFFECTIVE CHANGE WITH OUR GUN LAWS AND ENFORCEMENT.
NOT A THREAT,
MERELY A HISTORICAL OBSERVATION.
NOW,
HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS NEXT.
REPUBLICANS ARE GOING TO CALL FOR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS.
DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO CALL FOR GUN REFORM.
REPUBLICANS AND CONSERVATIVE THOUGHT INFLUENCERS ARE GOING TO SCREAM THAT DEMOCRATS ARE COMING FOR YOUR GUNS.
GUN SALES WILL GO UP.
INVESTORS IN THESE GUN IN AMMUNITION COMPANIES WILL MAKE MONEY.
RINSE AND REPEAT.
Apparently the lawmakers in Tennessee have never heard of Columbine and Sandy Hook in 2012.
After 2012 every state in America that did not want Red Flag Laws,backround checks and more money for Mental Health is responsible for this shooting at the bank in Tennessee and elsewhere.
A true hunter would never shoot a deer with an AR. The deer would be pulp. Pulp is not good to eat.
Trump 2024
I'm from NY where democrat majority rules with an iron fist. If a group of conservative activists were to do the same thing… break through the chamber security in Albany, and chant and scream "bail reform is murder!", and some of the republican reps were to join them and participate in the protest… you know the entire alphabet media would lose their minds calling it another Jan 6 insurrection, calling them domestic extremists, etc. How dare they interrupt the house and defile our sacred democracy, etc. etc. etc. It would be the biggest story of the season. There needs to be one standard. These individuals broke the rules of the house, codified in the state constitution, and payed the price. Somehow it's always okay for the left to break the rules or have "firey but mostly peaceful protest" and pillaging of American cities throughout 2020. You're not freedom fighters, you're self-righteous and arrogant ideological zealots. You don't have a monopoly on truth, and the "right side of history" isn't determined by what you think it is in the moment.
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Oh wait… now it's dishonorable. Got it.
Best to stay out of Tennessee with your stupid ideology and go back to California
No one cares about your gun legislation in TN you are barking up the wrong tree if that's the case we need to ban the alphabet squad for starting the debate in the first place
Good riddance to this garbage.
Criminals Prey On The Defenseless.
why they holding up fists ? what is this the black panthers movement ! They should be called the 2 animals and a fat white lady.
Power to the People. POWER TO THE PEOPLE RIGHT NOW !
Hahah. Dickheads.
I reserve the right to arm myself with whatever Ukrainian fathers and husbands are using to keep the Russian rape babies away.
2nd Amendment: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,"…
GOP fools: "Let anyone get a gun no matter what!"….Why have we forgotten the first part of the 2nd amendment?
If its Democrats protest it's called support if its Republicans protesting it's called an insurrection, weird?
I want to see these “people’s” resumes
2 woke communists expelled. I am ok with that.
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Republican lawmakers surely don't care about children. They only care about the human being when it is inside the mother's womb. I am sick in tired of children being killed by assault weapons. Their bodies being destroyed.
Being black in America means that even when you flout the rules and suffer the consequences, there is an endless parade of people ready to tell you how wonderful you are and that the only reason you were punished is because of your skin colour. This is what they call the bigotry of low expectations. Blacks have little incentive to change their behaviour, so there is very little prospect that things will ever get better for them.
Since they don’t want to change any laws and seeing they are the regressive party let them have what they want let’s go back in the time that the second amendment came to be the law and let them have all the muskets etc. that they want no background checks. Buy and take home the same day maybe that would make them happy seeing that they love to turn the clock back and have everything run ass backwards.
They were expelled for Breaking House rules. Not for the issue on the floor.
The treacherous three.
Gun control doesn't work, Look @ Chicago Illinois!! Democrat run for way too long obviously.
Why is the Democratic Party not signing a bill to protect are children Bill s1081 and s1082
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Those people in the white house needs to mind their own business. They should take care of their own. We Tennessean don't have a problem with our Cities. Plus. The people who think they need no guns. You should go to a state where they have strong gun control. 😂 Stay there for 6 months and tell me how you love gun control.
"no action NO PEACE" while using a bullhorn to interupt an event is "peaceful"? 😂
The left were dramatically losing so in a desperation attempt they had to stir something nonsensical with their trained marxist teams ready to go.. theres absolutely positively zero evidence that stricter gun laws stops killing… If anything in states with less gun laws theres LESS shooting.. criminals get their guns illegally..
Some good news…
Arrest the representatives for treason.
Only the wolves would want to take the horns away from the rams, and the staffs away from the shepherds.
Its so sad how this country continues to be divided even further. This is no longer United States this is Divided States.
Bye
F your gun rights.
Arrest them with no charges, no lawyers, no court dates , solitary confinement like all insurrectionists. This is worse than Pearl Harbor. Biden caused this with his incendiary speech.
JESUS IS THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE. #YES TO STRICT GUN POLICY! #NO TO ABORTION.
#HUMAN RIGHTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE. #END CORRUPTION, CRIMES, DRUG CARTEL AND TERRORISM.
From the same state that murdered Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we shouldn't be surprised