Rep. Jamaal Bowman gets into passionate argument with pro-gun lawmaker over Nashville school shooting

Rep. Jamaal Bowman got into a passionate argument with a pro-gun Republican lawmaker over the Nashville school shooting — right in the halls of Congress.

The progressive Bronx lawmaker was accosted by GOP Rep. Thomas Massie on Wednesday night as Bowman derided opponents of gun control after this week’s slaughter of six people, including three 9-year-old children.

“What are they doing about it? Nothing. They don’t have the courage. They’re cowards,” Bowman bellowed. “Three 9-year-olds. Are they going to those funerals? No!”

Massie, who opposes virtually all restrictions on guns, stopped to urge Bowman to support a right-wing bill that would encourage teachers to be armed inside schools.

“More guns?” Bowman shouted incredulously. “More guns leads to more death.”

Bowman later rejected criticism about the tone of his attack on gun-rights supporters.

“NO. We can’t calm down,” Bowman tweeted. “People are dying everyday while we wait.”

House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries Thursday said he sympathizes with lawmakers who are frustrated at the lack of action on guns amid a seemingly unending string of deadly mass shootings.

“I do understand that passions are running high on the issue,” the powerful Brooklyn Democrat said. “Our children are being slaughtered in the streets of America.”

After the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, Congress last year reached a rare incremental bipartisan compromise that enacted some modest new gun restrictions

Democrats want to reinstate the assault weapons ban, which would outlaw sales of the AR-15 semi-automatic weapons that have been used in the vast majority of recent mass shootings.

They also want to enact stricter rules that would prevent young people, criminals and those with mental illnesses from buying some or all firearms.

Large majorities of Americans back such new regulations, especially as the death toll from gun violence has increased dramatically in recent years.

Republicans, on the other hand, oppose almost all gun restrictions and conservative judges have rolled back gun control rules, citing the Second Amendment.

Right-wing extremists like Massie actually claim Americans would be safer if more, not fewer, ordinary people are armed with more powerful weaponry.

Some GOP lawmakers, including controversial Long Island Rep. George Santos, want to declare the deadly AR-15 as America’s “national gun.”