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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 As students across Nashville walked out of class on Monday to protest gun violence at the Tennessee Capitol following a school shooting<\/a> last week, police said the person who killed six people, including three 9-year-old children, had been planning the massacre for months.<\/p>\n

Police have not established a motive for the shootings at The Covenant School, a small Christian elementary school where the 28-year-old shooter was once a student, according to a Monday news<\/a> release from the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department. Both Nashville police and FBI agents continue to review writings left behind by Audrey Hale, both in Hale’s vehicle and home, police said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is known that Hale considered the actions of other mass murderers,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n

The three children<\/a> who were killed in the shooting were Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney. The three adults<\/a> were Katherine Koonce, 60, the head of the school, custodian Mike Hill, 61, and 61-year-old substitute teacher Cynthia Peak.<\/p>\n

Hale fired 152 rounds during the attack before being killed by police. That included 126 rifle rounds and 26 nine-millimeter rounds, according to police.<\/p>\n

Outside the state Capitol on Monday, thousands rallied in a call for gun reform, many of them students from Nashville-area schools who walked out of their classes en masse. Some other students sat outside the House speaker\u2019s office in the legislative building.<\/p>\n

The crowd outside the Capitol echoed chants such as \u201cthoughts and prayers are not enough” and sang along to songs like \u201cAll You Need is Love\u201d \u2013 adding to it, \u201cand action!\u201d At one point, they sat for a moment of silence, raising posters above their heads that read, \u201cThoughts and prayers are useless to dead children,\u201d \u201cBook bags not body bags,\u201d and \u201c2nd graders over 2nd amendment.\u201d Some students wore orange shooting-target stickers on their shirts.<\/p>\n

Vivian Carlson, a senior at Hume-Fogg High School nearby in downtown Nashville, helped organize her school\u2019s walkout. She told the crowd that her biggest fear last week, when the shooting unfolded, should have been \u201cmissing the bus or my stepmom scolding me for not cleaning the cat litter box.\u201d Instead, she said she was missing English class Monday because politicians are \u201cprotecting old laws for a new society.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carlson, like many others who addressed the crowd, called for changes to Tennessee’s gun laws, including a ban on assault weapons, tougher background checks and a \u201cred flag\u201d law. Red flag laws general<\/a>ly allow law enforcement to temporarily confiscate weapons from people whose statements or behavior are deemed to make them a danger to themselves or others.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo my fellow students, we cannot let this pressure and fire escape us,\u201d Carlson said. \u201cFeel the fear as you walk into school and let it inspire you to fight for change. And please, if there is one thing you can do, I beg you to vote.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tennessee’s Republican governor and supermajority Republican legislature have moved to loosen gun laws<\/a> in recent years. The same day as the Covenant shooting a federal judge quietly cleared the way to drop the minimum age for Tennesseans to carry handguns publicly without a permit<\/a> to 18 \u2014 just two years after a new law set the age at 21.<\/p>\n

As thousands swarmed the Capitol, Gov. Bill Lee and state lawmakers held a press conference nearby to unveil legislative proposals that would add more funding for school resource officers and mental health resources.<\/p>\n

The proposals included $140 million to place an armed security guard at every public school, as well as $27 million to enhance public and private school security. Lee is also proposing adding $30 million to expand the state\u2019s homeland security network that will work with both public and private schools.<\/p>\n

The governor\u2019s proposals must now clear the Legislature as lawmakers are in their final weeks of the session.<\/p>\n

Notably absent from Lee\u2019s announcement were any calls to tighten the state\u2019s access to guns. As he stood surrounded by top Republican leaders, Lee said he believed that people who are a threat to themselves should not have access to weapons, but also stated that any law designed to address those concerns shouldn\u2019t impede 2nd Amendment rights.<\/p>\n

He called on the Legislature to find the app<\/a>ropriate solution. Yet that call to action may be short-lived after Sen. Todd Gardenhire, who chairs the influential Senate Judiciary Committee, told reporters that he has no plans to consider any new gun-related bills this session.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all agree that we should all find something that we agree upon,\u201d Lee said. \u201cI think we can do that and I think we should do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lee added that he had not talked to Gardenhire about his stance on halting new gun legislation.<\/p>\n

An AP investigation last year<\/a> found that most U.S. state barely use the red flag laws touted as the most powerful tool to stop gun violence before it happens. It\u2019s a trend experts blame on a lack of awareness of the laws and resistance by some authorities to enforce them even as shootings and gun deaths soar.<\/p>\n

Even after the main rally ended Monday, hundreds of protesters remained at the Capitol as lawmakers went into the House and Senate chambers for their evening sessions. Many protesters made their way inside the building, where they sang \u201cThis Little Light of Mine\u201d before erupting into chants, \u201cSave our kids!”<\/p>\n

The scene recalled a rowdy gun control protest last week. On Thursday, protesters were forced to leave the Senate chamber gallery after yelling, \u201cChildren are dead!\u201d \u2014 and two Democratic lawmakers caused the House to temporarily shut down by chanting, \u201cPower to the people!\u201d through a megaphone.<\/p>\n

Police have said Hale was under a doctor\u2019s care for an undisclosed \u201cemotional disorder.\u201d However, authorities haven\u2019t disclosed a link between that care and the shooting. Police also said Hale was not on their radar before the attack.<\/p>\n

Social media<\/a> accounts and other sources indicate that the shooter identified as a man and might have recently begun using the first name Aiden. Police have said Hale \u201cwas assigned female at birth\u201d but used masculine pronouns on a social media profile. However, police have continued to use female pronouns and the name Audrey to describe Hale.<\/p>\n

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