Self-described as the “world’s leading liberal voice,” U.K. news outlet The Guardian published an attack-style article denouncing the Republican supermajority in Tennessee politics on Friday, claiming such a political makeup has “imprisoned our democracy.”
The piece justified the accusation by citing state lawmakers’ response to last year’s shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, among other legislative actions.
The article states:
The murder of six people at a church school in an affluent, largely white enclave of Tennessee’s largest city one year ago sparked a mass protest movement for gun control by Nashville parents. The Republican-dominated legislature met that movement with some spending on school police officers as a gesture to the outrage, a law shielding gun and ammunition manufacturers from liability as a gesture to Tennessee’s powerful gun lobby and the expulsion of the two Black lawmakers as a gesture of warning to people causing too much trouble.
The report failed to elaborate on the school killer, 28-year-old Audrey Elizabeth Hale who identified as transgender, and how it has since been revealed that there was a “massive failure of the mental health system” in the case in regards to Hale being under doctor’s care for an emotional disorder at the time of the shooting – specifically concerning an alleged failure to report of a threat made by the shooter before carrying out the heinous act.
Hale, who allegedly visited the school multiple times before shooting and killing three adults and three students on March 27, left behind a manifesto of which three pages have since been leaked. Those three pages are filled with hateful and violent rhetoric, specifically towards white children.
The piece also failed to mention the ongoing legal battle for the shooter’s manifesto to be released to the public, as such available information would not only reveal the shooter’s intent for carrying out the act but also would better assist lawmakers in legislating solutions for such crimes.
In addition, the piece briefly acknowledged state lawmakers work during the special legislative session called last year in response to the school shooting but deceptively implied that an overwhelming percentage of Tennesseans advocated for gun control laws to be passed.
The article states:
The special session ended with laws to speed up background checks and to provide free gun locks. Lawmakers also appropriated $100m in one-time spending for community mental health agencies and other mental health services, and to provide more school resource officers. But “red flag” laws and other gun safety measures were off the table, despite polling, protests and prudence.
Multiple polls conducted around the time of the special session consistently showed Tennesseans against the passage of red flag laws and instead wanted solutions concerning the criminals who commit such crimes.
For example, a poll published by co/efficient in June specifically showed that most Tennesseans would prefer that dangerous people be removed from society rather than removing guns from the hands of potentially dangerous people via red flag laws.
In regards to the piece citing protests in favor of the passage of red flag laws, leftist-organized protests with the intent of disrupting the special session were held while at the same time out-of-state gun control activists were phone banking to residents in Tennessee to advocate for the passage of such laws.
It should be noted that Friday’s article was filed as a news story opposed to an opinion piece.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
Photo “The Guardian U.K. Headquarters” by The Guardian U.K.
Rocky, here’s why the left pushes democracy as a form of government:
“Democracy is indispensable to socialism.” The goal of socialism is communism.” V. I. Lenin
Lenin called his followers “useful idiots” because they didn’t know that communism is not good for the people.
“We must hate. Hatred is the basis of communism. Children must be taught to hate their parents if they are not communists.”—Vladimir Lenin
Which history demonstrates:
“Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.”
—Aristotle (384 BC—322BC)
Our founders rejected democracy as a form of government. They ordained a Constitutional Republic to constrain the democratic process, especially to protect minority rights against majority rule of a democracy. So when one deranged killer commits murders, the solution is NOT to violate the rights of citizens, but rather to, in this case, enhance security of schools as has and is being done.
This matter was settled in the landmark SCOTUS “Miranda” Decision in 1966, the one which declared “you have a right to remain silent” (5th Amendment). It also ruled:
“Where rights secured by the Constitution are involved, there can be no rule making or legislation which would abrogate them.” ― Miranda v. Arizona (384US436)
The dude is a Socialist wanker from across the pond. Who cares what the Fascist dribbles from his lips.
Besides, the United States is not a Democracy.
Must still be upset that they were thrown out over 200 years ago. Threw the trash out as some would say.
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release the manifesto…..
Don’t ya think it’s funny that the “Party that worships the doctrines of hell” accuses those who don’t, of being “Evil”???????
“Woe unto them” that call Evil Good and Good Evil, bitter sweet for sweet for bitter, Justice is injustice and injustice is justice,
truth is turned backwards and Justice is fallen in the streets.
didnt we fight a war to tell the UK to piss off?
not a democracy. democracy is simply mob rule.
also, they’re the UK so who gives a $hit
Coming from a country that leads the world in murders by knife and hammers and trails the world in dental hygiene. Think I’ll pass on their input.
And this piece of literary propaganda from the UK. If you want to see what will happen to America if we do not keep fighting back against liberalism and globalism, just look at the UK. How many times has America saved rheir ass from global conflicts. I am afraid that the UK is now beyond rescue as it has been taken over by the marxists, and their national identity has been erased in the name of globalism.
lET’S GET THIS STRIGHT, IF A LIBERAL HAS THE MAJORITY ALL IS GOOD, IF NOT FREEDOM IS AT RISK. IS THIS NOT THE VERY THING THAT MAKES FREEDOM GO AWAY?