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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Tennessee Lawmakers Pass Bill to Allow Armed Teachers, a Year After Deadly Nashville Shooting [Watch (HLS stream): Tennessee Lawmakers Pass Bill to Allow Armed Teachers, a Year After Deadly Nashville Shooting](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/j2EaU6T6.m3u8) (2:25)  _Published 2024-04-24. Protesters chanted “Blood on your hands” at Tennessee House Republicans on Tuesday after they passed a bill that would allow some teachers and staff to carry concealed handguns on public school grounds, and bar parents and other teachers from knowing who was armed._ --- Apr 25, 2024 1:13 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Expelled Tennessee Lawmaker Returns to Legislature](/video/uc1fHQcF/) ### Expelled Tennessee Lawmaker Returns to Legislature [Tennessee’s House Expelled Two Democratic Members for Protesting After Nashville School Shooting](/video/hqk6tyoC/) ### Tennessee’s House Expelled Two Democratic Members for Protesting After Nashville School Shooting [Teachers Are Using #ArmMeWith to Demand They be Armed With Supplies, Not Guns](/video/XrQa6mgO/) ### Teachers Are Using #ArmMeWith to Demand They be Armed With Supplies, Not Guns --- ## Transcript Spotify What are the biggest questions that people ask me all the time? They ask you I'm certain have you done everything you can possibly do to make our school safe across the state? I believe that this is a method by which we can do that because what you're doing is you're creating a deterrent we need to stop the guns before they get to the school. They should never get to the schoolhouse door you all want to bring the gunbattle into the classroom has more of the insane and we've come to this chamber for a year expecting you to pass common-sense from the chamber every week saying armed teachers with a book they need the materials. They need the resources. They need my God said you don't hear them what you're doing today, but guns are teachers you should be ashamed of yourself. R68 2892 present or potent Senate Bill 1325 Pass Drive Jackson, the Most lyrics are stable. But the question that we must ask ourselves is are we going to quit I will know short bridge and it's because we are attitudes that is know that you got reason to be hopeful. 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