Safer TN Tracker
Safer TN Tracker
Safer TN Tracker | November 15, 2024
Safer TN is celebrating the progress we achieved together in the last legislative session. Thanks to your partnership, we’ve reached meaningful milestones in advancing firearm safety: Passed a new law preventing firearm purchases for 18-25-year-olds…
Safer TN Tracker | November 1, 2024
With Election Day right around the corner, I’m reaching out to urge you to vote if you haven’t already. The only way to make our voices heard during any election cycle is through the ballot…
Safer TN Tracker | October 17, 2024
As October is Domestic Violence Awareness month, we are focusing on what is – and isn’t – being done to protect victims of domestic violence. Did you know that the leading cause of death for…
Safer TN Tracker | October 4, 2024
This week, Safer TN presented a webinar on suicide prevention. The statistics are shocking: Our state’s rate of suicide by firearm is nearly 50% higher than the national average. Rural residents and military veterans are…
Safer TN Tracker | September 20, 2024
Once again, a Tennessee child has died in an accidental shooting after finding a loaded gun in an attic. Phillip’e Woodard was 8 years old and full of promise. He was the third child in…
Safer TN Tracker | September 6, 2024
The new school year is barely underway, but already a community in a neighboring state has been devastated by a fatal school shooting. Two 14-year-olds and two teachers died in the shooting at Apalachee High…
Safer TN Tracker | August 26, 2024
Less than 14% of registered voters in Tennessee turned out for the primary Aug. 1. Although the November presidential election is expected to draw far heavier turnout, many voters give little thought to state and…
Safer TN Tracker | August 8, 2024
As we send our children back to school this month, we feel excitement, a sense of possibility, and no small measure of apprehension. Will my child be safe? School shootings are thankfully rare, but when…
Safer TN Tracker | July 26, 2024
We have two more days to vote early in this primary election, which will set the course for the next session of the General Assembly. It’s hard to overstate the importance of the primary: Because…
Safer TN Tracker | July 18, 2024
“Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls.” -Peggy Noonan, presidential speechwriter and American author Early voting…
Safer TN Tracker | June 27, 2024
In the last week, we’ve seen two landmark developments in firearm safety. First: On June 21, the U.S. Supreme Court found, in what will become a historic 8-1 ruling, that “[w]hen an individual has been…