‘Children are dying’: lawmakers argue as protesters in Nashville demand action

Amid national grief and anger over the Nashville elementary school shooting in which three children and three adults were killed, members of Congress clashed angrily in Washington while protesters demanded action in Tennessee.

In Washington, while speaking to reporters on Wednesday evening, Jamaal Bowman, a Democrat from New York and a former school principal, called Republicans "gutless" for refusing to support meaningful gun control reform.

Thomas Massie, a far-right Republican from Kentucky, overheard.

"What are you talking about?" he asked, adding: "There's never been a school shooting in a school that allows teachers to carry guns."

Massie is one of many Republicans to have released, often as holiday cards, images of family members holding assault weapons.

Bowman responded: "Carry guns? More guns lead to more death. Look at the data. You're not looking at any data."

The New Yorker told the Kentuckian states with open-carry laws have more gun deaths. Massie told Bowman to calm down.