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Voices for a Safer Tennessee is a nonpartisan statewide coalition dedicated to prioritizing gun safety and advocating for common sense gun laws to make communities across Tennessee safer for all of us.

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

Lizzi Riordan · 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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