In the wake of the latest mass shooting in the United States this time at a primary school in Nashville, Tennessee protesters have taken to the state capital to demand gun control action from legislators.

The deadly school shooting that killed three children and three adults in Nashville, Tennessee, has sparked renewed debate over gun laws and protests at the Tennessee State Capitol.

Hundreds of protesters gathered at the Tennessee state capitol on Thursday, 30 March, to demand tighter gun control after a deadly shooting at a Nashville elementary school on Monday.

"I felt a duty to be here to be a voice for the children, to prioritize their safety," said S'Kaila Colbert, the mother of two children, in an interview with CNBC. "I can't even (find) the words. How do you explain that to a 6-year-old? How do you prepare someone who doesn't experience violence to be prepared for fighting for their life in a place that they love to be?" 

Police said 28-year-old Audrey Hale, a former student at the Covenant School, entered the building and started firing randomly. Hale was gunned down by officers, but not before taking the lives of the six victims. 

Protesters lined the hallways of the capitol with chants of "save our children," hoping to get lawmakers' attention in the state's Republican-dominated legislature as they filed into the building. 

Among them was an 11-year-old student, John Hollis Chester, who told CNN that the current gun laws scared him. 

"There's a bunch of bad gun laws," said Chester. "It's sad that we have to do all these drills because we're so used to having these shootings in schools everywhere. So it kind of makes me feel scared and sad." 

Janet Maykus, a local church pastor who came to the protest, said she was turned off that Republican leaders would not speak about the school shooting at the legislative session. 

"Is anybody going to say anything? Is anybody going to do anything?" Maykus told WPLN. "Or are we just going to keep having weapons of war on the street?" 

Since the 1999 Columbine High School Massacre in Littleton, Colorado, 175 people have died in 15 mass shootings connected to US schools and colleges, according to a database compiled by Northeastern University, USA Today and the Associated Press.