representative pierson, that when you were sworn in after you were reappointed to your seat you said you can t expel our fight. talk to me a bit about how you re going to continue thi fight for gun reform what the republicans who ar majority of tennessee though they were doing was silencin the voice around an issue that they have yet to take on seriously. they ve all had a lot of false solution or finding an violence, about gun reform what myself, or visited of johnson, representative jone sought to do in the day when w went a peaceful protest or solicit to the voices of thousands of tennessee and sno millions in the sea and some people across the country wh are saying we must do somethin differently than the statu quo. as we continue our fight, it i to make sure you push forwar legislation and next week, myself and representative jone passed legislation that will b putting forward. the input and support of representative johnson so many others to the stat legislature to say here ar
under 18 years old would hav went up to 15% or by 30% fro 2019 to 2021 and more children and teen were killed by guns in 202 than in any year since 1999. a survey found that one in fiv u.s. adults say they have lost a family member due to gun related violence against that backdrop of the statistics and the recen storms - like the one in nashville an the one at a bank in louisville republicans flock to indianapolis to attend, yap, the nra convention this week joining me now are two members of the tennessee free. state representative glori johnson and justin j. pearson. great to have both of you. thank you for making time. representative johnson, i like to start with you and dare i say, it was statistics like the ones tha i ve just cited that might hav compelled you to protest in th first place. tell me your motivation. absolutely.
killed in a mass shooting in nashville. state democrats call for meaningful gun reform, and the faced with an action from th gop, three state representatives, justin jones, justin pearson and glori johnson, well, they proteste on the house floor and that was against the rules apparently but the house speaker went eve further saying without evidenc that the three lawmakers wer trying to, quote, incite violence republicans responded by expelling jones and pearson, both black men, along part lines. johnson who is a white survive her expulsion vote next up, north carolin republicans, who just welcomed a new member into their club house representative trish kaufman, a longtime democrat winning her race last week b campaigning on protectin abortion access and lgbt rights this week, though, she pulled 180, switching parties, an ultimately giving the gop if veto proof supermajority in th state house. that strip s democrati governor roy cooper of his
out. joining us now, tennessee state representative glori johnson who was one of the three who was not expelled yesterday. thank you so much for being on the show this morning. we appreciate it i guess the question for you this morning is, what worrie you the most about wha happened in the state hous yesterday, and what gives yo the most hope. well, you know, it is just travesty process was not there was no process there were rules, we tried t get some information on what the rules were going to, b what the process was going to, be we got nothing, and a littl bit of direction that woul allow us to bring in any video of our own however, when we get there they make a motion to show their video that we have not seen, we don t know who took it we did not know how the added it they promised us it was only filmed from the floor that day but it turns out it was not.
made headlines for protestin on the floor of the tennesse house against gun violence on march 30th, three days afte a school shooting in nashville left six people dead including three children, the democratic state representatives, glori johnson, justin jones, and justin pearson took to the podium on the house floor to the chance for gun reform. as the republican colleagues tried to move on to othe business following, that they wer relieved of their committe assignments, their access to the capital, their play so for worth even revoked tennessee how speaker, cameron sexton, tried to compare the tennessee threes active protes to quote an insurrection but he walked that back afte receiving backlash for those comments these past thursday, republica state representatives in tennessee decided to proceed with the extraordinary mov expelling two of the tennessee three, two young black freshma lawmakers, justin jones an justin pearson, as punishmen for violating the house rule of decorum