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SIX UNINTENTIONAL SHOOTINGS IN EIGHT DAYS

It’s been a terrible ten days for unintentional shootings in Tennessee. There have been six unintentional shooting incidents in the state since April 29.  Four involved adults and two involved children with access to loaded guns. One of the adults did not survive. “We’ve tracked six unintentional shootings in eight days,” said Beth Joslin Roth, policy director for The Safe Tennessee Project.  “These

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Negligent Storage Shootings

#SafeStorageSavesLives Every year, far too many Tennessee kids are injured or killed when they or another child gains easy access to loaded, unsecured guns.  In most cases, these shooting incidents are accidental.  We track all accidental or unintentional shootings but these we classify differently as they are the direct result of an irresponsible gun owner not storing firearms safely according

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