A black lawmaker was moved to tears on the floor of the Florida House of Representatives on Tuesday, in a dramatic confrontation over race and gun violence that convulsed Tallahassee. The bitter partisan debate left the Democratic lawmaker, Shevrin Jones from South Florida, putting his Republican colleagues on notice, warning them, "Don't dare call me a racist." At issue was a request by Jones that teachers who might soon wield guns in classrooms endeavor to acknowledge their own prejudices. The suggestion led a white Republican to claim that Jones was slandering teachers. Republican lawmakers defended the expansion of the guardian program by arguing that it merely creates a "pathway" for teachers to arm themselves, as state Rep. Dane Eagle of Cape Coral said on the House floor on Wednesday. He stressed that the solution was "not a mandate."