A report released Monday by the Sycamore Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, indicates that gun deaths are on the rise in Tennessee.
That’s bad.
They’ve been rising overall for about a decade — by 66% between 2011 and 2021 — and, most alarmingly, among children.
The report details, for instance, that men die from gunshots at a far greater rate than women, that Blacks have a much higher rate of deaths by firearms and that Black men have the highest rate of gun deaths among all Tennesseans.
You probably knew that much.