channeling energy and an outpouring that is the essence of democracy and is the essence of what makes this country great and my hat is off to him. and i think you re going to see your you re gonna you re starting to see some seismic shifts. and i hope they reverberate. we ll see just remarkable day remarkable few days for him as well. we ll see what happens with justin pearson s vote on wednesday. thank you for joining us tonight . cnn tonight with alison camerata starts right now. good evening, everyone. i m alison camerata. welcome to cnn tonight . the ousted tennessee state. rep. justin jones tonight is reinstated. he was just expelled on thursday for protesting inside the chamber and demanding action on gun reform after that school shooting in nashville that killed 39 year olds and three adults. today we re setting a resounding message that democracy will not be killed in the comfort of silence. then this morning, yet another mass shooting a 25 year old gunman opened fire
an incredible friend. last week . it was the first lady of tennessee, her friend who she was having dinner with supposed to be having dinner with that night was one of the substitute teachers who was killed in that mass shooting today. the mayor of louisville said that he himself had been in a workplace mass shooting. this is suddenly are universal experience. the one thing that unites all americans is that they now know somebody who is connected to a mass shooting. no it s true. i mean, this is an issue that is touching so many different lives , and i m not a politician. my job isn t to come up with policy. but i am a person who can look and see what s happening and see that something s broken when it is touched so many people s lives. i mean gun deaths are the leading cause of death among children and teens. i mean, just that fact alone, and that s not necessarily just related to these assault weapons that other issues as well. but just the fact that so many children so
the founders wanted that this is possibly what they intended. the second amendment written about muskets and militias. and now being used as a pretext to do nothing about these weapons, which in the hands of people, whether they re mentally ill, or just angry or whatever are just killing americans, and it just is unconscionable to me that we could really believe that this is what the founders intended. jessica one of the remarkable things is how many lives these mass shootings touch. and so today, the governor of kentucky, and bashir lost his closest friend in this shooting, and he talked about it on camera right after the news broke. we lost four children of god today. one of whom was one of my closest friends. tommy elliott helped me build my law career. help me become governor. gave me advice on being a good dad. it s one of the people i talked to most in the world and very rarely. are we talking about my job? he was
silence. then this morning, yet another mass shooting a 25 year old gunman opened fire inside the bank, where he worked in louisville, kentucky, killing five people and injuring at least eight others. a source says his weapon of choice was an ar 15 style rifle. we ll talk about how credit card companies could help crack down on mass shootings, but why they re not. and one of the most admired spiritual leaders in the world issues. an apology after a video goes viral showing the dalai lama asking a young boy to suck his tongue. and the southern my tongue. yeah. we ll have much more on all of that ahead. but let s bring in our panelists we have with us. jay michaelson. he s a rabbi, a buddhist and a columnist for rolling stone. we
lives matter. protests in austin posted online that he might quote kill a few people on his way to work. he was found guilty of shooting and killing garrett foster, a protester at a black lives matter demonstration. perry was convicted by a jury, but the chairman of the republican party in texas did not agree with that verdict and told the governor that a pardon was quote in order. the next day, governor abbott announced that s what he would do. back now with our panel. we re also joined by cnn legal analyst joey jackson. joey what are we missing here? how can we see this in any other way than through a political lens? i think it s very difficult to see it in any other way. and it s troubling and it just is. i won t even say baffling, but it just sends a wrong message at a wrong time. you know, we have a process and certainly trials a contentious and during those contentious trials, both sides get to air the issues. even before that, alison, you have something called jury selection whe