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saying no laws existing or proposed could have ) what happened yesterday in nashville. >> such a deeply offensive thing to say. it really is. if this had been a muslim shooter, we would have seen a thousand bills proposed for more things for homeland security to do. willie, the idea that every time a horrific tragedy like this happens, if you even talk about trying to do something to make our school safer for our children, people say, "oh, there's nothing you can do." they say you can do something for everything else but this. that's why you find ourselves in a position where our chi...

the covenant school, a small private school inside a church that the chief of police in nashville chief john drake, says appears at one point was apparently a student at that school. they were led to her by what he said was a vehicle parked nearby that they wouldn't go into further detail about her as this investigation is just underway. police say that she killed three adults staffers as well as those three children and students. the first call came in at 10 13 am local time and police say within 15 minutes of the call. the attacker was dead. cnn's dianne gallagher is tracking all t...

On Monday afternoon, in the aftermath of the school shooting in Nashville, CNN was promoting precisely the opposite of what would likely provide better protection for schools as law enforcement analyst Andrew McCabe argued against arming school teachers. Even though teachers would be able to respond immediately more quickly than police could arrive, McCabe oddly argued that the failure of Nashville police to stop the six murders was somehow evidence that armed teachers could not have fared better.

Because, quite frankly, until we change our leadership and get some people with some real backbone in there, it's not going to change. there's going to be no meaningful law change in tennessee from this that i can see. it's heartbreaking. >> yeah, it is heartbreaking. everything about this, representative freeman, is heartbreaking. what's also heartbreaking is those people that you were talking about, they could have been with you. they could have seen everything. they just wouldn't have cared. they really wouldn't have cared. i talk to these people. i know these people. they just don't care. ...

Of a 10-year-old, right in the same age range, i can't even begin to imagine what that felt like. i was just watching the videos before this came on of the shooter breaking into the school. it's just terrifying, heartbreaking, angering. here in tennessee, we've -- we actually, instead of restricting guns, we actually continue to expand them. we've got a serious problem, and we know it. we're just afraid to do anything about it. >> so, representative freeman, can you talk a little bit about the gun laws in the state of tennessee? most of the country isn't familiar with the particulars of it. wh...