Each year, the Centers for Disease Control updates their Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) database with fatal injury data provided by state health departments. Data included in this report was sourced from the WISQARS database. The 2018 fatal injury data was recently released. Gun violence continues to be a serious public health issue in Tennessee. Based on
Read moreMore Tennesseans were fatally shot in 2017 than in any previous year on record. If an illness were killing our friends, family, and neighbors at such an alarming rate, we would not hesitate to label it a crisis. And that’s what gun violence is. It’s a public health crisis. We need to address it the same way we would any
Read moreTo view or download a PDF version of this report, click here. Gun deaths are on the rise in Tennessee, and continue to outpace the U.S. average in three key categories: Firearm mortality, which includes all forms of fatal gun violence: all violence-related fatal shootings, including homicides, fatal domestic violence shootings, and legal intervention, to firearm suicides, to unintentional shootings,
Read moreThe Centers for Disease Control recently released fatal injury data for 2017, and when it comes to firearm deaths in Tennessee, the numbers are undoubtedly concerning. Tennessee’s gun death rate rose across the board, showing increases in all firearm deaths, including firearm homicides and firearm suicides. “Over the last several years, we’ve watched with dismay as the number of Tennesseans
Read moreThis information is sourced from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention WISQARS database. WISQARS (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System, pronounced “whiskers”) is an interactive database system that provides injury-related mortality data. The data below is specifically related to firearm deaths – all firearm deaths, firearm homicides, firearm suicide deaths, and unintentional shooting deaths. The Centers for Disease Control
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