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“Scared of getting shot”: Protesters fill Tennessee Capitol building after Nashville school shooting

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Protesters flooded Tennessee's statehouse on Thursday to demand lawmakers stiffen gun laws, following a school shooting in Nashville, Tenn. that left six people dead, three of them 9-year-old children. More than a thousand people joined the protest organized by local mothers, packing the building's rotunda and forcing highway patrol troopers to clear paths in the crowd for lawmakers to walk through.

"I have grown up all my life being scared of getting shot at school. And I really just want to fight for gun control because I'm tired of my life being put second to a firearm. And I want students to have the opportunity to be able to share their voices because they are the ones being affected by this issue," 16-year-old Tennessee high school student and protester Chloe Spangler said.

In the latest incident of U.S. mass school shootings, the shooter killed three pupils and three staff members at Nashville's Covenant School, with police responding and killing the assailant, a 28-year-old former student at the school.

Republican lawmakers in Tennessee this week delayed hearings on gun legislation that would expand access to firearms. The state in recent years has made it easier to acquire firearms and done away with the need for permits to carry concealed handguns.

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