The Tennessee legislature passed a controversial bill allowing teachers to carry guns, causing protesters to scream their disapproval and cause chaotic scenes on the state House floor. The bill was passed just over a year after the Covenant school shooting when a former student killed three students and three adults.

Tennessee Republican lawmakers have passed a bill that would let some teachers and staff carry concealed handguns on public school grounds. If Republican Gov.

A year after six people were killed at Nashville’s Covenant School, a Republican supermajority voted to arm educators.