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Nashville Banner: A Year After Covenant, Some See Optimism in Incrementalism.

Safer TN Staff · April 8, 2024 ·

“COLUMN: Math says gun safety reforms won’t happen without the GOP; two Republicans offer a window into why change might occur.

It was one of those phone calls where someone starts yelling before you even have a chance to say hello.

…The caller was a mom who had never been particularly political before the events of March 27, 2023, when a shooter killed six at the Covenant School. And her frustration was a familiar one. The legislature’s unwillingness to enact meaningful gun safety legislation, either in last year’s special session or the current regular session, has certainly not gone unnoticed. If you talked to participants in the human chain that connected Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt to the Capitol on the massacre’s anniversary, you’d find gun control activists, to be sure. But you’d also find regular people, of all political stripes, frustrated and angry at the state’s leaders on the issue.”

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Upcoming Events

Bristol Rhythm and Roots Reunion
Bristol Rhythm and Roots Reunion
13 Sep 26
Safer TN Ribbon Cutting at the Monroe County Chamber of Commerce
Safer TN Ribbon Cutting at the Monroe County Chamber of Commerce
16 Sep 26
Winchester Head Start Family Resource Day
Winchester Head Start Family Resource Day
18 Sep 26
2nd Annual Chattanooga Back to School Bash
2nd Annual Chattanooga Back to School Bash
20 Sep 26
Stronger Together Resource Fair
Stronger Together Resource Fair
29 Sep 26

Past Events

  • Memphis Back to School Bash
    Memphis Back to School Bash
    13 Sep 26
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    Bristol Rhythm and Roots Reunion
    12 Sep 26
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    Bristol Rhythm and Roots Reunion
    11 Sep 26
  • Smokies Baseball Game
    Smokies Baseball Game
    3 Sep 26
  • Rhea County Health Council
    Rhea County Health Council
    2 Sep 26

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