by allison | May 10, 2024 | Gun Safety
Since last year’s mass shooting in Nashville, the Covenant School moms have been front and center in the battle for sensible gun laws in Tennessee. I’m here for it. Initially I was bothered by the fact that these moms kept reiterating that they’re Republican. How...
by allison | Apr 5, 2024 | Gun Safety
Plenty of viral videos came out of last year’s special legislative session on gun violence, where Tennessee’s Republican lawmakers limited debate by Democratic lawmakers, limited public access to the Capitol, and limited the free speech of Tennesseans who’d gone there...
by allison | Feb 16, 2024 | Gun Safety
After the Kansas City shooting—the latest chapter in a uniquely American story of anguish and inaction—I said a few things my mother wouldn’t have liked. As a native southerner raised by a native southerner, I got daily lessons in being polite. Here are some...
by allison | Feb 2, 2024 | Gun Safety
Some lies just won’t die, and the results can be dangerous. You know, like vaccines cause autism. Or the 2020 election was stolen. Both totally debunked, and dangerous. Here’s another dangerous lie: More guns make us safer. Decades of data say the opposite. In...
by allison | Jun 24, 2022 | Gun Safety
Here’s a number that’s depressing on its face, but that gives me hope for changing Tennessee’s gun laws (and a lot of other bad laws too): Tennessee ranks 46th for voter turnout. In the 2020 presidential election, when we had near-historic turnout, only 60 percent of...
by allison | Jun 22, 2022 | Gun Safety
Every two years, we get a fresh chance to send pro-gun-safety leaders to Nashville and Washington, DC. We just haven’t been doing it. Meanwhile we keep asking ourselves, “How many more dead children will it take for our elected leaders to do something?” Those leaders...
