As Nashville reels from school shooting, Tenn. lawmakers consider loosening gun restrictions

Nashville teacher Charlene Culbertson arrived at work early Tuesday morning. But she hesitated to walk into the building, a public elementary school not far from the church school where a shooter had killed three children and three adults a day earlier. 

“I sat in my car until I felt like I had a good enough mask on to be who my kids expect to see,” said Culbertson, who teaches 20 preschoolers at Shwab Elementary School. 

“My little students seem fine today, but I am not,” she said. “This has been a hard...