Protesters chanted “Blood on your hands” at Tennessee House Republicans on Tuesday after they passed a bill that would allow some teachers and staff to carry concealed handguns on public school grounds, and bar parents and other teachers from knowing who was armed.
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00:00 >> Mr. Spaulding, appreciate it.
00:03 [BLANK_AUDIO]
00:09 >> One of the biggest questions that people ask me all the time, they ask you,
00:14 I'm certain, have you done everything you can possibly do to make our schools safe
00:18 across the state?
00:20 I believe that this is a method by which we can do that,
00:23 because what you're doing is you're creating a deterrent.
00:26 We need to stop the guns before they get to the school.
00:31 They should never get to the schoolhouse door.
00:34 You all want to bring the gun battle into the classroom.
00:39 >> This bill is morally insane, and we've come to this chamber for
00:42 a year expecting you to pass common sense gun laws.
00:44 You have mothers and grandmothers here dragged from this chamber every week
00:48 saying, arm teachers with the books they need, the materials they need,
00:51 the resources they need.
00:52 But for God's sake, you don't hear them.
00:54 What you're doing today is you're gonna put guns in our schools for our teachers,
00:57 and you should be ashamed of yourself.
00:58 >> [APPLAUSE] >> Aye 68, 28 nays, two present, I'll vote it.
01:03 >> Senate Bill 1325, I have received a constitutional majority, I declare it passed,
01:07 without objection.
01:09 The motion to break Sarah's table.
01:10 >> Put on your hands, put on your hands, put on your hands, put on your hands.
01:22 >> Vote them out, vote them out, vote them out, vote them out, vote them out.
01:32 >> [BLANK_AUDIO]
01:38 >> Blood on your hands, blood on your hands, blood on your hands.
01:43 >> But the question that we must ask ourselves is are we gonna quit?
01:47 >> Are we gonna stop?
01:50 >> No.
01:51 >> Are we going to give up on the tendency that we can be?
01:54 >> No.
01:55 >> And I think it is because our answer to that is no, that you've got reason to be
02:00 hopeful.
02:01 >> Yes. >> And you've got reason even in such a difficult
02:04 and dark time to still have faith.
02:06 >> Yes.
02:07 >> Because indeed this is what democracy looks like.
02:10 >> Yes.
02:11 >> What the heck is what?
02:14 >> Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
02:16 >> [BLANK_AUDIO]