Grace Eliza Goodwin
Mon, March 27, 2023
A shooter killed 6 people at The Covenant School in Nashville on March 27, 2023.John Amis/AP
A woman interrupted Fox News' live coverage of a school shooting to plead for gun reform.
A 28-year-old female shooter killed 3 children and 3 adults at an elementary school in Nashville on Monday.
The woman grabbed the mic and asked reporters on the scene, "How is this still happening?"
A Highland Park shooting survivor interrupted Fox News' TV coverage of a deadly Nashville school shooting, jumping on the live mic to demand lawmakers pass gun control.
Fox News and local news outlets were reporting on the scene when a woman walked up to the mic and gave an impassioned plea for gun reform.
The woman — who was later identified as an activist named Ashbey Beasley, according to USA Today — said she was a survivor of the Highland Park, Illinois, shooting on July 4th, 2022, that left 7 people dead.
"Aren't you guys tired of covering this?" Beasley said. "Aren't you guys tired of being here and having to cover all of these mass shootings?"
Beasley said was visiting the Nashville area on a family vacation with her son to visit her sister-in-law when she heard about the latest deadly shooting — which left 3 children and 3 adults at a Christian school dead.
"I have been lobbying in DC since we survived a mass shooting in July," Beasley said in front of a group of reporters on the scene, which was broadcast on Fox News. "I have met with over 130 lawmakers. How is this still happening? How are our children still dying and why are we still failing them?"
She continued: "These mass shootings will continue to happen until our lawmakers step up and pass gun legislation."
Fox News abruptly cut away from her, with a reporter responding to the woman's speech, saying she "said it quite succinctly: 'Aren't you tired of this?' Yes, we are tired of this."
Though Fox News' broadcast cut Beasley off, The Recount posted video showing more of her remarks.
"We all have to call our lawmakers and we all have to make our lawmakers make change now," Beasley continued in the video shared by The Recount on Twitter. "Or this is going to keep happening and it's going to be your kid, and your kid, and your kid next. Cause it's just a matter of time."
Nashville Metro Police say a 28-year-old woman opened fire at The Covenant School
Country Singers Call Out Politicians After Nashville School Shooting: ‘F— the NRA’
Thania Garcia
Mon, March 27, 2023
Following Monday’s news of a shooting at a private Christian elementary school in Tennessee, several celebrities took to Twitter to point their frustrations at politicians and demand the need for stricter gun control laws.
A 28-year-old Nashville woman killed three children and three adult staff members at the Covenant School before she was shot and killed by police, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said. At the time of this article’s publication, the shooter’s identity has not yet been released.
Nashville-based singer-songwriter Margo Price tweeted at Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and questioned his choice to pass the permit-less handgun carry bill — which allows anyone 21 years or older to legally possess a weapon.
“Four dead so far in an elementary school shooting in Nashville this am. Can I ask you, @GovBillLee why you passed permit-less carry in 2021? Our children are dying and being shot in school but you’re more worried about drag queens than smart gun laws?” she tweeted. Price wa s referring to Lee’s ban on gender-affirming health care for minors, along with a bill he signed that limits drag show performances in Tennessee. While the bill doesn’t implicitly use the word “drag,” it forbids drag performances by male or female impersonators who, as the law defines it, provide entertainment that is “harmful to minors.”
Country singer Mickey Guyton joined the conversation writing, “As a mother, I’m pissed the fuck off. Shame on every single politician ok with doing nothing as children are getting assassinated on an everyday basis in a place that is supposed to be their safe haven.”
Nathan Followill of the Kings of Leon revealed that the shooting had happened near his son’s school. He closed his emotional tweet with pointed words against Gov. Bill Lee and the National Rifle Association.
Peter Frampton emphasized that the school was full of children between preschool and 6th grade. “Children, babies!!! It IS the fucking guns!” he tweeted.
Country singer Carly Pearce sent her condolences writing, “Praying for these babies & their families.”
Katie Couric asked “When will it end?” in response to the news that three children, and at the time, two adults, had been pronounced dead.
Actor Morgan Fairchild shared the breaking news on her Twitter and went on to re-tweet several updates and messages from gun control activists.
Director and film producer Alex Gibney took on Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, writing “just don’t pretend you are doing anything about the relentless murder of children by gunfire in this country.”
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