Gun control activists storm Tennessee State Capitol as fears of a left-wing uprising loom

Gun control activists were seen storming Tennessee’s State Capitol Thursday amid rising fears of a left-wing uprising at a rumored protest in Washington, DC.

Footage of the ongoing insurrection, posted to social media just before 2pm, shows progressive protesters attempting to enter the Nashville legislation building, and being batted away by several members of the city’s sheriff’s department.

Such dramatics were not exclusive to Nashville, however – as feelings of unrest continue to boil over after a recent mass shooting at a city school involving a transgender gunman who once attended the institution.

Hours earlier, outside Kentucky’s State Capitol in Frankfort, an unrelated procession featuring a clergy-clothes-clad activist in clown makeup and satanic garb assembled to protest their governor’s vetoing of a bill banning medical treatments for trans kids.

The civil disturbances as thousands of tweets promoting a ‘trans day of vengeance’ protest outside the US Supreme Court have been seen – and swiftly nixed – in the wake of the Nashville shooting, which took place on Monday.

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Footage of the ongoing insurrection, posted to social media just before 2pm, shows pro-LBTQ protesters attempting to enter the Nashville legislation building, and being batted away by several members of the city’s sheriff’s department

Hours earlier, outside Kentucky’s State Capitol in Frankfort, an unrelated procession featuring a clergy-clothes-clad activist in clown makeup and satanic garb assembled to protest their governor’s vetoing of a bill banning medical treatments for trans kids

While most condemned the attack – which left three nine-year-olds and as many school staffers dead – several unrelated fringe, extremist groups have surfaced claiming the shooting was a consequence of ongoing oppression of trans people in Southern, more conservative states. 

One such group, the Trans Radical Activist Network (TRAN), seemingly took notice of this chaos, and used the opportunity to rebrand a planned three-day procession previously called the Trans Day of Visibility as ‘a day of vengeance.’

Posters advertising the procession have been published and shared rapidly on platform such as Twitter, which confirmed Wednesday it had already removed more than 5,000 posts promoting the event.

According to several since-scrubbed advertisements, the event is still to be held in Washington, DC, as scheduled – from Friday until Sunday – though revelers wrote they would ‘march’ on the country’s most important court building at 11am Saturday.