Elementary school students and leaders have formed a tunnel that House lawmakers will be forced to walk through when session starts in an hour or so.
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Caught up with an emotional @SarahShoop33 after she and other Covenant families were kicked out of Civil Justice Subcommittee.
"I don't think they get what this means. We're here for six people who were killed in our school. We're just trying to do something."
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A human chain has formed outside of Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital in Nashville.
@myeowenstv is at the other end at the state Capitol.
@voices4saferTN tells me they’re expecting about 13,000 people in support of gun reform one year after Covenant.
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Folks are linking arms now, as the chain is really starting to take shape.
@voices4saferTN told me yesterday they had roughly 6,200 people registered.
That grew to over 9,000 today.
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Covenant mother Sarah Neumann is being consoled by Reps. Gloria Johnson, Jason Powell and Justin Pearson as special session adjourns in chaos.
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I asked the Covenant parents nonprofit if they felt the legislature cared about what they'd been through the last few months.
Emotions were very raw.
"It's concerning how much more they may care about what the lobbyists from the gun industry have to say."
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Hundreds, maybe somewhere between 300-400 people (mostly children and parents) here now and another 100 or so in the House chamber.
It is LOUD.
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Yes, actually.
He was asked, "It's been reported that you're living Davidson County or this immediate area, yet you've gotten mileage and per diem almost every week for the past year based on Crossville travel. How do you justify that?
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Wild sequence of events.
Democrats have walked out of session after Rep. Justin Jones was ruled out of order and cannot speak for the rest of the day.
Protest broke out in the gallery and Speaker Cameron Sexton ordered it to be cleared.
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