On Saturday evening in McMinnville, a 13-year-old boy unintentionally shot his 17-year-old sister as he was attempting to unload a .223 rifle. 911 operators attempted to talk the boy through performing CPR on his sister, but she was pronounced dead by first responders. “That poor child will live the rest of his life with the knowledge that he shot his
Read moreYesterday, Memphis reached a sobering milestone, logging their 200th homicide for the year. Sadly, there has already been another homicide in Memphis as they continue to trend towards the deadliest year in the city’s history. The National Rifle Association regularly points to the city of Chicago as an example of how strict gun laws have no effect on gun violence. They
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On Wednesday November 2, 2016, The Safe Tennessee Project was asked to speak about unintentional shootings involving children in Tennessee and MaKayla’s Law. Below are the slides from our presentation including the 20/20 video clip. Citations from the presentation — Chronicle of Agony: Gun Accidents Kill at Least 1 Kid Every Other Day USA Today and Associated Press http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/10/14/ap-usa-today-gun-accidents-children/91906700/ Accidental
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On Friday, the USA Today Network and the Associated Press published findings from an analysis of unintentional shootings of children between 2014 and 2016. Their results showed that children die in gun “accidents” more often than the government knows. Using data from The Gun Violence Archive, the analysis looked at all states. As part of their reporting, oregonlive.com included a
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From the USA Today – October 14, 2016 Hours earlier, he was a happy 4-year-old who loved Ironman and the Hulk and all the Avengers. Now, as Bryson Mees-Hernandez approached death in a Houston hospital room, his brain swelling through the bullet hole in his face, his mother assured the boy it was OK to die. “When you are on
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