Chaos Erupts After Tennessee Home Passes Invoice That Will Enable Academics To Carry Weapons in Lecture rooms, Protestors Chant “Blood on Your Hands” | The Gateway Pundit

The Tennesse Home of Representatives handed a invoice on Tuesday that may enable skilled academics to hold weapons inside school rooms.

In a 68-28 vote, the Home handed SB1325, permitting skilled academics and different college employees to hold into the college.

Solely 4 Tennessee Home Republicans voted towards the invoice, and all Tennessee Home Democrats voted towards the invoice.

The invoice will now head to Governor Invoice Lee’s desk, the place he’s anticipated to signal the invoice into legislation.

: The Tennessee Republican-controlled Home has handed HB 1202/SB 1325 that may enable some skilled academics and faculty employees members to hold handguns within the classroom.

Tennessee Governor Invoice Lee can signal the invoice into legislation or enable it to change into legislation with out… pic.twitter.com/tLtHUAP0zx

— RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) April 23, 2024

The invoice requires academics and employees who want to be armed at school to first obtain permission from the college’s superintendent and principal.

It additionally requires academics and employees to finish coaching at school policing, endure a background examine, and have a psychological examination.

Per The Tennessean:

Tennessee Home Republicans on Tuesday handed laws to permit some skilled academics and faculty employees to hold handguns regardless of pleas from Democrats, college students and gun-reform advocates to defeat the invoice.

Dozens of protestors within the galleries started chanting “Blood on your hands” as quickly because the laws handed, prompting Home Speaker Cameron Sexton, R-Crossville, to order state troopers to clear the galleries. Many protestors continued to chant and stomp down at lawmakers because the Home ground fell into chaos over parliamentary points.

4 Republicans finally crossed the aisle to affix Democrats in voting towards the invoice, with one other three abstaining from the vote. Nonetheless, the measure simply sailed via the Home on a 68-28 vote and is all however assured to change into legislation inside weeks, as Gov. Invoice Lee can both signal it into legislation or enable it to change into legislation with out his signature. Lee has by no means vetoed a invoice.

Armed academics, who might be required to endure coaching that some opponents have argued will not be intensive sufficient, might be allowed to hold handguns of their school rooms and in most campus conditions with out informing dad and mom and most of their colleagues they’re armed.

Moments after the Home handed the invoice, protestors flooded the Tennessee Home gallery and began to chant, “Blood on your hands.”

WATCH:

WATCH: “BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS!! VOTE THEM OUT!!”

Extra footage of chaos erupting and a die-in ensuing because the @tnhousegop passes the wildly unpopular @RyanWilliamsTN arming academics invoice as indignant college students and oldsters seemed on from the complete gallery. pic.twitter.com/MxRKfwE8Es

— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) April 23, 2024

⚡️JUST NOW: “BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS!!!”

Chaos erupts within the Tennessee Home as Republicans move the @RyanWilliamsTN arming academics invoice towards the need of the folks, with a whole bunch of scholars and oldsters wanting on. pic.twitter.com/Iv7FzGLYYb

— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) April 23, 2024

The Tenessee Home invoice comes a 12 months after a transgender killed three youngsters and three adults at The Covenant Faculty in Nashville, Tennessee.