It’s No Surprise Tennessee Is Seeing More Gun Violence – By Daniel Brown (The Progressive) / April 16, 2024
In 2021, the state legalized permit-less carry; since then, homicides rates have only gotten worse.
In late February, Memphis Mayor Paul Young told an audience at a local panel discussion that he had sat down in person with the city’s gang leaders shortly before Valentine’s Day and asked them for a ceasefire. Young said the gang leaders agreed, as long as certain conditions were met.
It was a rare and creative attempt to curb Memphis’s growing and troubling increase in homicides and gun violence.
In fact, by February, Memphis, Tennessee, had already recorded forty-five homicides, compared to thirty-eight in the same time frame last year, according to data that the Memphis Police Public Information Office emailed to The Progressive. Memphis also recorded 399 homicides in 2023, 346 in 2021, and 261 homicides in 2022.
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