A Black Lives Matter-linked member of the House disrupted an effort by Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., to share the contention schools' gun-free zones make them targets for mentally ill mass shooters.
Democrats have sought to push a gun-control agenda after the Nashville, Tennessee, school shooting left three 9-year-old children and three adult administrators dead, but Massie was stressing a point that schools with armed staff are not targets for mass shooters.
Nashville police note there is evidence the shooter picked one school over the other as her target because it was less secure.
Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., who has called for defunding the police, called Republicans "cowards" and "gutless" for not calling for disarming Americans, and used the tragedy to campaign: "Let them explain that all the way up to 2024."
"What are you talking about?" Massie calmly asked a shouting Bowman, in what turned into a heated back and forth between the hard-line Republican and progressive liberal in the halls of the Capitol.
"There's never been a school shooting in a school that allows teachers to carry," Massie said.
Bowman argued "more guns lead to more death."
In the case of the hailed heroes of the Nashville PD, the death of the shooter occurred three minutes after police entered the building — and just 14 minutes after the shooter shot out the locked doors of the school.
"Are you listening to what I'm saying?" Bowman shouted.
"Yeah, calm down," Massie replied.
Massie attempted to walk away from Bowman's shouting in his face, but the progressive Democrat stepped in front of Massie and another camera to keep shouting for gun control.
"All right folks, I've got a bill to repeal," Massie said into another camera, before Bowman cut in between them.
"You're just screaming," an incredulous Massie said, trying to get away.
"I've got a solution," Massie attempted to resume, before he was shouted down again by Bowman.
"Go over there and scream," Massie told Bowman.
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