Tennessee House speakers likening of protest over gun laws to Jan 6 assault on US Capitol draws fire Chattanooga Times Free Press

NASHVILLE — Tennessee Republican House Speaker Cameron Sexton’s comparison Friday of last week’s state Capitol protests over state gun laws in the wake of a deadly Nashville elementary school shooting as “at least equivalent, maybe worse” than the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol has Democratic lawmakers furious. “That is a blatant lie and it’s offensive,” House Democratic Caucus Chairman John Ray Clemmons of Nashville said to reporters Friday at a hastily called news conference, hours after Sexton made the comments on Knoxville’s The Hal Show program on FM 98.7. Sexton is from Crossville, Tennessee. A day earlier on…