As students across Nashville were walking out of class to protest gun violence following a school shooting last week, police released new information from the investigation“I don’t think people understand what it means to be up here,” said Sarah Shoop Neumann, a parent where her children attends Covenant, told reporters through tears. “It’s raw.”
Todd’s comments came after a parent of two Covenant students, Becky Hansen, sobbed while telling lawmakers for the first time publicly that her son’s teacher convinced students it was a race so they would move quickly and without panic from outside the school to a safe place. “How can we look them in the eye and say, ‘Our solution is going to be by bringing more guns, that you are afraid of, into the building’?” McLean said.