The Leadership Brief: Two former Tennessee governors on what the state could actually do on gun laws
Can Tennessee Get It Together on Guns? Two Former Tennessee Governors Think SoMark Humphrey—AP; George Walker IV—The Tennessean/APhen I was growing up in Tennessee, the state’s politics were–as was often said of Howard Baker, the centrist Senator who embodied them–like its namesake river: right down the middle. That era is long-vanished, as this week’s expulsion of two Democratic lawmakers from their seats made abundantly clear.
But common sense, having peaked out of its burrow, saw its shadow and quickly crawled back in. With the ink on The Tennessean op-ed barely dry, the governors’ minimalist call to action got drowned out by an act of partisan vengeance that went national. The GOP supermajority in the Tennessee legislature set out to expel three House Democrats who had peacefully interrupted its proceedings as part of the Nashville protests demanding action on guns.
. What drew me to that project was the hope that we could think differently, create a space that gathered people instead of expelling them, based on a hope that reason could triumph over rage.
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