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State Reps. Jason Powell, Gloria Johnson and Justin Pearson comfort Covenant School mother Sarah Shoop Neumann at the state Capitol on Tuesday.

 Photo: Hamilton Matt Masters

The state House and Senate adjourned their special session on Tuesday after six days of debate and protest.

Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican, called the GOP-controlled legislature into special session in response to a shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville earlier this year that left three children and three staff members, including a Lee family friend, dead. Lee had advocated for extreme risk protection orders, a way for courts to temporarily remove guns from the possession of people experiencing mental health crises.

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