A group of around 400 people rushed into the Tennessee state Capitol in Nashville on Thursday morning to protest for stricter gun laws following the mass shooting at the Covenant School earlier this week. Hundreds of protesters descended on the Kentucky state Capitol on Wednesday as Republican lawmakers enacted a sweeping ban on sex changes for minors after overriding the veto of the Democratic governor. Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull joins "The News & Why It Matters" to discuss her recent assault at an anti-trans rally in New Zealand. The so-called QAnon Shaman, who pleaded guilty to storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6, has been released from prison to a halfway house 14 months early in an apparent sentence-reduction for good behavior. Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie responded to a heated confrontation with Democratic New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman over gun control in the halls of Congress.

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