LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Speaker of the Legislature Galen Hadley is condemning state Sen. Ernie Chambers for a reference he made to gun violence.
Chambers made the comments during debate Wednesday over a bill to ban job discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Chambers said some of the comments against the bill were so upsetting that, if he were a white man, he would have brought a semiautomatic weapon to "mow everybody down."
Hadley did not respond at the time, but on Thursday he said on the floor of the Legislature that the remarks were "appalling." He went on to cite numerous examples of gun violence around the world.
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