{"id":1092,"date":"2024-01-15T08:37:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T08:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/?page_id=1092"},"modified":"2024-01-16T07:57:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T07:57:44","slug":"food_detail_10","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/?page_id=1092","title":{"rendered":"FOOD_DETAIL_10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">FOOD<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\"><strong>APRIL 23, 2023<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Weeks After a School Shooting, Tennessee Lawmakers Ended Their Session Early Without Any Gun Reforms<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Crafting the right mix requires strategy. Here are some tips.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:15% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/michaelssamantha-web.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1297 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<ul>\n<li>SAMANTHA MICHAELS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Senior Reporter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/23apriltennessee.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1296\" style=\"width:760px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/23apriltennessee.webp 768w, https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/23apriltennessee-300x169.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>APRIL 23, 2023<\/strong>Protesters in Nashville carry empty caskets to the Tennessee Capitol on April 17.\u00a0<strong>Michael Nigro\/Sipa USA\/AP<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Tennessee\u2019s Republican lawmakers<\/strong>\u00a0ended the legislative session early on Friday without taking action on gun control, less than a month after a mass shooter at a Nashville school\u00a0killed\u00a0three adults and three 9-year-olds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state allows 90 days for legislative sessions over a two-year period, but lawmakers adjourned this year\u00a0after just 27 days,\u00a0even as thousands of students, parents, teachers, and others have decried the role that lax gun laws played in the shooting and called for reforms. An hour or two after lawmakers headed home, Tennessee\u2019s Republican Gov. Bill Lee, whose wife\u2019s friend died in the shooting,\u00a0announced\u00a0he would send them back for a special session to keep debating a response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere is broad agreement that dangerous, unstable individuals who intend to harm themselves or others should not have access to weapons,\u201d Lee said in a\u00a0statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Audrey Hale, the 28-year-old gunman who opened fire on Covenant School, a private Christian school, had legally purchased seven firearms and\u00a0used\u00a0three of them in the shooting, including an assault-style rifle. He was a former student and was reportedly under care for an emotional disorder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Protesters are demanding an assault weapons ban, among other measures. Gov. Lee is pushing for a weaker bill\u2014an \u201corder of protection\u201d law that would restrict firearms for individuals who are deemed a risk to others. The bill has been watered down compared with \u201cred flag\u201d laws in other states, requiring a waiting period and court hearing before removing someone\u2019s guns. \u201cWe also share a strong commitment to preserving Second Amendment rights, ensuring due process and addressing the heart of the problem with strengthened mental health resources,\u201d Lee added in his statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Republicans hold a supermajority in Tennessee\u2019s legislature and said in recent days that they were too far into the session to consider the governor\u2019s proposal and how it might affect the state budget. According to the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>, Speaker Cameron Sexton\u00a0told\u00a0reporters at a press conference that he believed it was important to wait and have more \u201cconversations outside of the Capitol with the public,\u201d to \u201clet them have input on exactly how we should move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But he and his Republican colleagues seemed uninterested in public comment earlier in the session when they quickly\u00a0expelled\u00a0two Black Democratic lawmakers who protested on the House floor for gun control. At the time, Speaker Sexton\u00a0compared\u00a0the demonstration led by Reps. Justin Jones of Nashville and Justin Pearson of Memphis to the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol. Jones and Pearson, both Democrats, had widespread support from their constituents and were soon reinstated by local officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Republican lawmakers also ignored public demands for police accountability this session after Memphis cops fatally beat\u00a0Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old photographer and FedEx worker; instead, they voted to\u00a0dissolve\u00a0two civilian police oversight boards. And despite the LGBT community\u2019s outcry, they passed a bill that would stop transgender people from altering their gender on state IDs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By packing up early, Republicans are also ignoring all the student protesters who walked out of class to call for swift gun control, the older activists who marched with child-size caskets, and the demonstrators who formed a\u00a0three-mile human chain\u00a0across Nashville. State Rep. Karen Camper, the House Democratic leader, questioned why her Republican colleagues were delaying responding to their demands. \u201cWhy would you make the choice to leave and then come back when you could just do it right here, right now?\u201d she asked Republicans in a committee hearing on Friday,\u00a0according to\u00a0the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>. \u201cPeople are yelling and screaming out to us to do something.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weeks After a School Shooting, Tennessee Lawmakers Ended Their Session Early Without Any Gun Reforms Tennessee\u2019s Republican lawmakers\u00a0ended the legislative session early on Friday without taking action on gun control, less than a month after a mass shooter at a Nashville school\u00a0killed\u00a0three adults and three 9-year-olds. The state allows 90 days for legislative sessions over&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/?page_id=1092\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FOOD_DETAIL_10<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":370,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"on","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1300,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1092\/revisions\/1300"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}