The left’s obsession with disarming law-abiding Americans escalated into an embarrassing display after an anti-gun Tennessee state representative lost his temper and attacked his Republican counterpart in a fit of rage.
The showdown erupted during a Tennessee House Criminal Justice Subcommittee hearing when the radical-left State Rep. Justin J. Pearson (D-Memphis) lunged at a Republican lawmaker, Andrew Farmer (R-Sevierville), with insults and finger-pointing after his gun control bill HB 1392 flopped spectacularly.
Pearson’s gun-grabbing bill intended to repeal the state’s permitless carry that enables Tennesseans to exercise their God-given right to self-defense without requiring a permission slip from the state government.
Like other Democrats who exploit unfortunate events such as the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting to advance gun control, Rep. Pearson attempted to use his brother’s death by suicide to promote the gun grab. “We need to do something about the gun violence epidemic, we have the power to do something about the gun violence epidemic, and we don’t just have to offer some empty thoughts and prayers,” Pearson said.
However, Rep. Farmer called him out on lecturing the lawmakers about hard work and convictions when they have been working hard to pass important bills while he was visibly absent from the floor of the House.
“I know every member in this committee has been here this year, working, during committee, during session, voting on bills. And I know that you may have some things going on, but you have not. So, I don’t think it’s fair for you to come here before this committee and lecture us on hard work and convictions and hard work for our committee,” Farmer’s responded in part.
However, Rep. Farmer’s response made Pearson “very, very angry.” He explained that his absence was due to his brother’s death by suicide on December 1, 2024.
“Since that happened, it shattered my family like gun violence has shattered so many families,” Pearson said. “I buried my brother. I planned for his entire funeral. My fiancé made his obituary. I made sure that he was taken care of even in death. That’s what I’ve been doing.”
Pearson proceeded to say that the lawmakers’ job extended beyond the marble floors to the streets and communities, which he accused Farmer of hurting.
According to him, Farmer (and other lawmakers) passed bills to hurt “transgender children,” “the poor,” “the marginalized,” and “the disenfranchised,” and also failed to end poverty or expand Medicaid.
“…you’ve been here doing the hard work of making sure that our state is not the state that it can be—because you have to sign it,” he fumed.
Pearson lunged at Farmer, pointing a finger at him and talking over him while the Republican lawmaker avoided eye contact. Other lawmakers rushed in and pulled Pearson away, preventing an ugly scene.
“Don’t you ever come at me and my family.” Pearson said while walking away and calling Farmer a “son of a b****.”
Appearing on Fox13, Rep. Pearson said that Rep. Farmer was very disrespectful and dismissive of his family’s pain and heartache, but that does not justify such a brutish response from an elected leader.
Farmer also told news outlets in a statement that he sympathizes with Pearson due to his loss, but his reaction was unwarranted.
“There is not a single member of our body who doesn’t have tremendous sympathy for Rep. Pearson’s loss,” Farmer said.
“Pearson took the first available opportunity to attack and demean his colleagues and then attempted to confront me physically. I will continue to pray for him, and I hope he finds peace and healing.”
Person’s display of physical threat was ironical, considering that attacks involving bodily limbs such as hands, fists, and feet kill more people than shotguns and all types of rifles, including the so-called assault weapons, according to the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 FBI’s Universal Crime Reporting (UCR) data.
I would’ve enjoyed seeing him jump up, grab a handful of afro, or his pencil neck, and beat the sh*t out of him. But he did the right thing and let the libtard do what libtards do…make asses of themselves.
When we finish sawing California off and letting it float away, do the same with Memphis and send it down the Mississippi to the Gulf of America.
Who would vote for that hate filled man?
when will White men stand up to these monkeys.He needed a beat down.
Why doesn’t Representative Pearson work for mental health reforms that might have saved his brother’s life instead of proposing laws that would merely require a suicidal person to use an alternative method?
We’ve seen it here and in the US House and Senate; there are no rules, no decorum, no nod to the dignity of a legislative body, when it comes to some of these entitled but limited individuals. He should have been beaten to the floor. The civil rights movement has come full circle to where the victims are the aggressors.
Thursday, May 22, 1856, Representative Preston Brooks (D-SC) attacked Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) with a walking stick on the Senate floor. Sumner gave an impassioned speech on May 19th in which he harshly criticized slavery in the south and specifically many southern Representatives and Senators including Senator Andrew Butler (D-SC), who was related to Brooks. Sumner was nearly killed and was unable to return to his seat in the Senate till December 1859. Sumner’s speech addressed the “Bleeding Kansas” attacks, assaults and murders acted out by Democrats against people who spoke out against slavery. The Richmond Enquirer said of the attack, “good in conception, better in execution, and best of all in consequences” and said opponents of slavery “must be lashed into submission.” The New York Evening Post boldly printed “…that we [Republicans] must speak with bated breath in the presence of our Southern masters? … Are we to be chastised as they chastise their slaves? Are we too, slaves, slaves for life, a target for their brutal blows, when we do not comport ourselves to please them?” More telling, the Cincinnati Gazette said, “The South[ern Democrats] cannot tolerate free speech anywhere.”
History is a harsh task master and it shows quite clearly that Liberal Democrats have always been the party of violence, hatred, intolerance, bigotry, and racism. Always has been, always will be.
Ultimately, the issue issue for the representative is that his ranting does not help his cause. It makes him look unhinged and irrational.
It’s always his type that immediately want violence.
100% agree.