Today marks the one month anniversary of the worst mass shooting in US history. On June 12th in Orlando, 49 people were fatally shot and another 53 were injured at The Pulse nightclub when a hate filled young man, who had at one point been suspected of being a terrorist, used a legally purchased Sig Sauer MCX .223-caliber semi-automatic assault
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Joint statement on the Orlando shooting, gun violence from multiple physicians groups. Reprinted from the American Psychiatric Association. The American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Psychiatric Association offer our sincere condolences to the victims of the Orlando shootings, their families, and
Read moreThe Safe Tennessee Project, together with its 31 affiliate state gun violence prevention organizations, is saddened and horrified by today’s shooting at the Pulse Night Club in Orlando, FL. Saddened and horrified, but not shocked. We are no longer surprised when someone motivated by hatred is able to easily obtain assault-style weapons and rounds upon rounds of ammunition, turning another
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