Frustration mars Easter service in Justin Jones' Nashville district.

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Frustration mars Easter service in Justin Jones' Nashville district.
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Easter celebrations at Olive Branch Church in Nashville were tinged with frustration for many congregants over the ouster of state Rep. Justin Jones, who protested gun control measures in the Tennessee House. Jones' former constituents say he was simply trying to protect them from the accessibility to guns Tennessee law allows. Republican legislators voted to expel Jones and another Democrat over their protests on the chamber floor, arguing that they had broken the rules of the House. Tennessee has one of the weakest gun laws in the country, and it had the 10th-highest gun death rate and the 19th-highest gun export rate, according to the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

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