Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) rallied exterior the Capitol on Wednesday with Tennessee State Rep. Justin Jones (D-Nashville), in a name for gun management and an finish to “assaults on democracy.” 

“We’re right here immediately, to place it fairly merely, as a result of we’re younger and fed up,” Frost stated to supporters and press exterior the Capitol on Wednesday. “Earlier this month, this nation watched in horror as harmless faculty youngsters in Nashville have been murdered of their lecture rooms.”

Then, he stated, they remained targeted on the southern state as a “far-right fascist motion” expelled Jones and his colleague Rep. Justin Pearson (D-Memphis) for protesting gun violence.

“We include a message from the Tennessee capitol to the U.S. Capitol: that we’re fed up with the assaults on our democracy and we’re fed up with the limitless cycle of mass shootings,” stated Jones. “We’re fed up with legislators and politicians who’re trapped within the politics of racism. We’re fed up, and when you’re fed up, you bought to stand up.” 

Jones and his fellow State Reps. Justin Pearson and Gloria Johnson visited the White Home on Monday to debate gun management with President Biden. 

Like Jones, Pearson was expelled by the GOP-controlled state legislature for becoming a member of the protest on the Home flooring. Johnson, a white lady who joined the 2 younger Black lawmakers, held on to her seat.

The expulsion sparked outrage across the nation. Many, together with the lawmakers who’ve grow to be generally known as the “Tennessee Three,” pointed to the racial undertones of the expulsions.  The three have since earned the reward of President Biden, and Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Tennessee after their expulsion in a present of help.

“They tried to expel us, and in doing so that they thought they may expel our motion,” stated Jones. “However what they did was put vitality and present the nation so overtly and blatantly what we’re up in opposition to.”

Frost informed The Hill that when he heard Jones was coming to Washington D.C., he knew instantly they wanted to mobilize.

“I requested him and we stated will we need to mobilize on gun violence, Black solidarity or youth and he stated, ‘All of them,’” Frost stated. “So we determined to undergo that lens of being an individual of colour, being a teenager and fearing gun violence on this nation and the local weather disaster and the way all of that is all mixed.” 

“I all the time joke round that the age of the one difficulty voter is shortly dying as a result of younger folks on this nation don’t see one difficulty, they see every part mixed and I believe that’s actually essential and the consultant reveals that in what he does,” Frost added.

Frost and Jones have been joined by a number of fellow activists and political leaders, together with Knowledge Cole, Nationwide Director of the NAACP Youth and School Division, and Democratic Reps. Summer season Lee (Penn.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) and Steven Horsford (Nev.). 

Frost, who made historical past along with his election by turning into the primary Gen Z member of Congress and Congress’s first Afro-Cuban member, has been an ardent supporter of gun management. 

He has known as his era “the mass capturing era,” and has beforehand stated it seems like he has “been by extra mass capturing drills than fireplace drills.”

“What it means to be younger on this nation proper now could be to know what gun violence means, it’s to know the local weather disaster, it’s to know these problems with our time,” Frost stated Wednesday. 

Jones added it’s time for the White Home to take motion and known as on Biden to “do one thing out of the unusual.”

“We’d like our White Home to make use of the facility of govt orders to declare gun violence a public well being emergency,” Jones stated.