On average, around 600 Tennesseans use a gun to take their life every year.  That’s 50 people per month, more than one per day.  Many of those who take their own life with a firearm are children.  Youth and adult firearm suicides are unique in both their impulsivity and their lethality. Pulling a trigger take very little planning and there

“Four assumptions frequently arise in the aftermath of mass shootings in the United States: (1) that mental illness causes gun violence, (2) that psychiatric diagnosis can predict gun crime, (3) that shootings represent the deranged acts of mentally ill loners, and (4) that gun control “won’t prevent” another Newtown (Connecticut school mass shooting). Each of these statements is certainly true