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More young Americans want gun control but guns are in country’s DNA
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Protesters gather at the Tennessee State Capitol building to call for gun reform laws on April 6, 2023.
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WASHINGTON – “You cannot expel hope,” exclaimed a triumphant Mr Justin Pearson in a fiery speech, surrounded by cheering supporters in Nashville, Tennessee, last Wednesday.
The 29-year-old member of Tennessee’s House of Representatives, and fellow state representative Justin Jones, 27, both Democrats, had just been reinstated in the state legislature after they were kicked out for their noisy advocacy for gun control in the wake of a shooting at a Christian school in Nashville.
