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President Obama Unveils New Executive Actions to Reduce Gun Violence and Make Our Communities Safer

Posted on January 5, 2016 by safetennesseeproject

Americans are living in a culture of never-ending gun violence and it’s wearing on them. Recent polling shows that 89% of Americans support background checks on all gun sold in this country to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people. Even here in Tennessee, recent polls conducted by both Middle Tennessee State University and Vanderbilt showed 83% and

Since Sandy Hook, an American kid under 12 has died by a gun every other day

Posted on December 14, 2015 by safetennesseeproject

by Mike Brunker and Polly DeFrank (excerpted from MSNBC.com) There are at least 554 reasons to ask whether American children are safer from gun violence today than they were three years ago, when the unthinkable happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School. That’s how many kids under the age of 12 have died from gunshots — both intentional and accidental — since