President Joe Biden met three Tennessee lawmakers at the White House on Monday after they faced expulsion for participating in gun control protests at their statehouse, calling the decision to remove two of them 'shocking' and 'undemocratic.'
WASHINGTON, April 24 - President Joe Biden met three Tennessee lawmakers at the White House on Monday after they faced expulsion for participating in gun control protests at their statehouse, calling the decision to remove two of them "shocking" and "undemocratic."
Jones and Pearson - two young Black legislators - were expelled earlier this month but were soon after returned to office by their localities in special votes. Johnson, who is white, narrowly survived an expulsion vote. The three lawmakers joined children, parents and others protesting at the state Capitol days after a Nashville school shooting killed three 9-year-old children and three school staff members.
The lawmakers said they discussed with Biden red flag and safe storage laws, an assault weapons ban and strengthening background checks, among other possible gun control measures.The Tennessee lawmakers did not say what specific actions, if any, Biden discussed taking at the national level.
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